The Government on Thursday approved the Government Decisions by which the Ministry of Finance will be able to transfer more than two billion lei to pay for the arrears of the National Health Insurance House and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
According to a press release of the Ministry of Finance, the National Health Insurance House will receive almost two billion lei, of which 964 million lei will be allocated for the settlement of medicines with and without personal contribution and the payment of medical services in hospitals, due in December. Also, one billion lei will be allocated for the settlement of sick leave. Thus, economic operators that paid for sick leave from their own funds will receive the settlement of the respective amounts.
Also, as much as 46 million lei will be redistributed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of which 26 million lei will be used to settle debts resulting from Romania’s non-payment of membership fees to international organisations.
„Through the savings achieved and due to a more rigorous management of public spending, the Government manages to intervene in priority areas, to settle accumulated debts. The additional allocation to the National Health Insurance House allows not only the settlement of medicines and medical services provided to patients, but also the payment of arrears regarding sick leave. Thus, companies that have borne the payment of these rights from their own funds will receive the appropriate reimbursements, which contributes to correcting financial blockages, supporting the economic environment and restoring a healthy payment circuit in the health system,” the Minister of Finance, Alexandru Nazare, said on Thursday, as quoted in the press release.
According to the Ministry of Finance, these measures are possible due to the favorable development of the fiscal-budgetary situation in the last 6 months, determined by better coordination of the programming of budgetary and European funds, the adaptation of the PNRR (National Recovery and Resilience Plan) to the realities of implementation and the government measures of budgetary discipline and revenue growth. AGERPRES
