Ten million euros from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) intended for the modernization of more than 100 family planning offices are at risk of being lost, because the Ministry of Health would not make the necessary efforts to ensure that the money reaches the medical units, claims the Save Romania Union (USR) deputy Adrian Wiener, in a press release issued on Friday, according to Agerpres.

According to the USR MP, five months after the opening of the funding call, through which at least 119 family planning offices can be financed, only two such applications were submitted.
„The Ministry of Health, apart from the administrative role provided for by the law, must be a ferment, to inform – to pull even on people and institutions, to give directions, to break inertia, to capitalize on trust, to actively promote public policies, not wait from the armchairs, not to publish only through the Official Gazette,” Wiener adds.

In addition to the modernization of family planning offices, the funds from the PNRR are intended for carrying out educational campaigns for reproductive health, implemented at the national level, especially in vulnerable areas, as well as improving the knowledge of the medical staff employed in family planning centers, Adrian Wiener explains.

According to the USR, Romania ranks second in Europe in terms of the number of teenage pregnancies, and young mothers end up not continuing their studies, thus being at risk of poverty and social exclusion.

Agerpres