The state paid debts of EUR 233mln within the healthcare system

Newsroom 08/09/2010 | 16:45

The state has paid EUR 233 million (RON 1 billion) worth of debts to private healthcare suppliers. Over the next period, the state will also deliver the funds for the rest of the debts, said the Minister of Finances, Gheorghe Ialomitianu.

There are two conditions for the Romanian state to get a new installment, of EUR 914 million, from the loan granted by the International Monetary Fund. These are the payment of debts and the approval of the Pensions’ Law. “We have the money and we have paid one billion. The Ministry of Finances and the Ministry of Health will also pay the rest. The money is there,” he said.

At the beginning of September, the Ministry of Finances approved loans from the budget of the National Health Insurance Fund worth EUR 233 million (RON 1 billion), of which EUR 143.7 million (RON 616.5 million) for hospitals and the rest for medicines.

The ministry had been granted, during the budget rectification in mid August, nearly EUR 690 million (RON 2.96 billion) for the National Health Insurance Fund.