The document discusses Romania's National Plan for Rare Diseases, which passed through four stages of identification of needs, conferences, plan creation with Ministry of Health involvement, and public debate, before a partnership agreement was signed with the Ministry of Health in February 2009. It notes that while progress has been made, rare diseases are not yet included in the national health strategy and screening does not cover the entire country. A Norwegian-Romanian partnership was also formed to help finance rare disease projects, though progress remains slow.
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1. National Plan for Rare Diseases Romania
Dorica Dan President RPWA/ RONARD
BALKAN CONGRESS FOR RARE DISEASES ROMANIA
June 26-27, Cluj -Napoca
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3. The Romanian NATIONAL PLAN FOR RARE DISEASES
was passed after 4 stages:
i The identification of needs, fields of intervention and
consisting parts;
November 2-3, National Conference
3. Creation of the plan itself , involving the Ministry of
Health;
4 working groups meetings
Involvement of the authorities in the WG;
h The public debate phase
Rare Diseases Campaign
m The signed partnership agreement with the Ministry of
Health;
29 February 2009;
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4. It is time for Public Authorities to consider rare
diseases as a Public Health priority and take action
to concretely support patients and families affected
by rare diseases.
NEEDS:
Unite the efforts of the different rare disease
patient organizations in Romania.
Work to end the ongoing isolation for rare
disease patients that the health system, mass media,
and scientific researchers in our country foster.
Advocate for an adequate national strategy, to
ensure better health care, educational and social
services for our patients. =
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5. A partnership agreement between MH and
RONARD for implementing a National Plan for
Rare Diseases in Romania was signed on February
29, 2008, the 1st European wide Rare Diseases Day;
still, it is not included in the National Strategy for
Health;
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6. July 1, 2008 a national program that included orphan
drugs began where the drugs were 100% compensated
-Budget 1,300,000 EUR
-2009 more orphan drugs added to the program
-Budget 13,500,000 EUR
-Funding for national registries was allocated
-Both in 2008 and 2009 (in 2008 was not used);
-The budget for screening was increased
-it does NOT cover (no infrastructure) the entire
country, so effectively, Romania HAS NO
SCREENING;
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7. 'Partnership Norwegian-Romanian (NoRo) for
progress in Rare Diseases made towards
financing the Norwegian Cooperation Program
with Romania.
- MH is the co-funding partner;
- Open for other projects in partnership;
- Progress still slow;
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