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PERSPECTIVES REGARDING THE RIGHT TO HEALTH AND THE ACCESS TO MEDICAL EMERGENCY SERVICES
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The article contains general aspects regarding the right to health and analyzes the European and national regulations in this regard, outlining certain elements specific to this right. Although the research starts from these generalities, it continues with particular aspects of access to emergency medical services for citizens, exemplifying concrete statistics from one of Romania's counties and the difficulties faced by the emergency medical system during the COVID-19 pandemics. The research is based on certain specialized bibliographic resources, but also on information from the written press from that time, but especially on the findings contained in the Special Report of the Romanian Ombudsman in the field of health, which captures very well these deficiencies from the pandemic period and not only. By comparing the situation of the existing ambulances in the inventory of the Brasov County Ambulance Service in 2020 and in 2021, it can be seen that the situation did not improve during the pandemics. Even now, there is no integrated solution at the national level to improve private individuals' access to emergency medical services.
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European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights (Title IV, Art.35 - Health protection, Official Journal of the European Union C 303/17 - 14.12.2007); Article 168 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;
Articles 11 and 13 of the European Social Charter;
General Comment no. 14 of the Committee for Economic, Social and Civil Rights;
World Health Organization, www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/human-rights-and-health;
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;
General Comment no.14 of the Committee for Economic, Social and Civil Rights;
Romanian Constitution, https://www.constitutiaromaniei.ro/art-34-dreptul-la-ocrotirea-sanatatii/;
Constantinescu Mihai, Iorgovan. Antonie, Muraru Ioan, Tanasescu Simina Elena, The revised Romanian Constitution.Comments and explanations, All Beck, Bucharest, 2004, pg. 72
Law no. 46 of January 21, 2003 on patient rights, published in the Romanian Official Bulletin no. 51 of January 29, 2003;
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Official Journal of the European Union, 26.10.2012, pg 17;
The Romanian Ombudsman Institution, The Special Report regarding patients’ accessibility to the services that are offered by the Romanian medical system, https://avp.ro/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Raport-accesibilitatea-pacientilor-la-serviciile-oferite-de-sistemul-medical-din-Romania.pdf.
ProTV News, Image of ambulances waiting in line, at the Brasov Infectious Diseases Hospital. Doctor: "The situation is very serious", publication date: 03 April 2021, https://stirileprotv.ro/stiri/actualitate/imagine-cu-ambulante-asteptand-la-rand-la-spitalul-de-boli-infectioase-brasov-medic-situatia-este-foarte-grava.html
Brasov.net, 85% of the calls made to the Brasov Ambulance are Covid emergencies. In some cases patients wait even 7 hours for a crew to arrive, publication date: 18 October 2021, https://www.brasov.net/85-dintre-apelurile-facute-la-ambulanta-brasov-sunt-urgente-covid-in-unele-cazuri-pacientii-asteapta-chiar-si-7-ore-sa-ajunga-un-echipaj/
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