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Raed Arafat: Romania among countries benefiting from advanced emergency healthcare services
Romania is among the countries benefiting from advanced emergency healthcare services that still needs development, but whose main strong point is it is an integrated system, Health Ministry's Deputy State Secretary Raed Arafat told Agerpres, on Tuesday March 27.
It ranks quite well among the EU healthcare systems, it is functional, and many countries wish they had it, and it deals not only with emergency cases, but also intervenes in collective accidents and natural disasters, Deputy State Secretary Raed Arafat told European Parliament's debate on the particularities of the emergency healthcare services, in Brussels, emphasizing that any emergency healthcare service has to be ready to resolve natural disaster cases, too.
Among the EU countries, we believe we have an advanced emergency healthcare service, Arafat added.
Under State Secretary Raed Arafat, the founded SMURD, the Mobile Emergency Service for Resuscitation and Extrication, admitted that the Romanian emergency service still needs to develop interventions in cases such as calamities, chemical accidents, natural disasters, earthquakes, etc.
'We are not fully prepared, we still have to improve the staff's training, and we are currently training ambulance nurses, each specialty taking three months. We first trained ambulance doctors, and we plan to get further ambulance staff and firefighters trained. Irrespectively of how powerful the Romanian emergency system is, we still have a lot to be don, said Arafat.
'Our system is integrated and SMURD combines the Health Ministry, the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Defense, hospitals and firefighters, and the integrated systems are the most efficient compared to those wherein each sector works separately, 'Arafat pointed out. The EP debate was organized by Romanian MEPS of the ALDE Group like Norica Nicolai, Cristian Busoi and Antonia Pirvanova from Bulgaria.