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Non-reimbursable funds for health from Switzerland
The Ministry of Health will benefit starting on Monday, December 19 and until December 2019 from a non-reimbursable funding worth ten million Swiss francs to be employed to develop some programmes of personnel training in all sanitary units in the sectors of emergency, paediatric and NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) as well as primary care, announced undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Health Raed Arafat on occasion of signing a cooperation agreement between Romania and Switzerland.
The programme meant to train family doctors will try to create new multi-functional centres and the REGA Swiss air rescue service will cooperate for the creation of the emergency services, by getting involved in the development of the Romanian teams' capacity of rescue, the undersecretary explained.
He mentioned that REGA has a vast experience in the field, working in it since the 50's.
Swiss specialists will train Romanian pilots in the field of mountain rescue, flight under difficult conditions, will contribute to the creation of medical procedures, said Raed Arafat. Specialists in the medical field will also come who will prepare trainers in the field of NICU and primary care.
According to the undersecretary of state, the subsidy will be administered in Switzerland and Romania and the funding is labelled Swiss contribution granted to Romania. The Ministry of Health will co-finance by 15 percent.
Romania benefited from Swiss aid between 1996 and 2006 by three programmes aiming the development of the emergency and neonatal services in our country.
Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation in Bucharest Jean-Hubert Lebet stressed that they have been working at this agreement for some time. The cooperation has been extended over lots of fields since the Revolution in 1989, especially in this area, the Swiss diplomat stressed.