Health Minister Alexandru Rafila announced on Tuesday that the mental health centres nationwide will incorporate the units of the National Anti-Drug Agency, where prevention, monitoring and testing activities will be developed.

„There are two elements related to the reform of the National Anti-Drug Agency. Soon, all mental health centres all over the country will also incorporate the units of the National Anti-Drug Agency. We will develop prevention, monitoring and testing activities for those who wish to participate at the level of these mental health centres, and we are trying to make them as accessible as possible for the population. At the same time, we are also focusing on the development of addiction centres, meaning hospital wards, in terms of level and degree, but with a completely different organisation and operation, separate from the hospital medical activities at the psychiatric hospital or at hospitals that have such wards,” Rafila said at Parliament.

Regarding the Cancer Registry, Rafila mentioned that it is in an advanced phase and will be built alongside registries for other diseases, tools „which have been missing from Romania for 35 years.”

AGERPRES