Irinel Popescu (photo), Head of the General Surgery and Liver Transplantation Centre "Fundeni" and Personal Advisor of the Minister of Health, will speak about “Liver Chronic Diseases”

"There are kidneys’ livers’ lungs’ and heart’s chronic diseases that can be cured by transplantation. It is already a proven fact that patients who have previously been dependent on chronic dialysis or repeated hospitalizations and had a miserable and expensive life quality, became after transplantation, healthy people. Therefore, supporting consistent national programs and solid organ transplantation and continuing the battle to increase the number of organ donors should be among the main objectives of any health system in the world.

Certain chronic diseases are intensive resource consumers. Particularly, the cancer issue is more and more important. Each year, molecules occur, but every time they are more expensive and their efficacy has not always been tested. Recently, NHS (National Health System in UK) decided not to settle the costs of Bevacizumab. If a health system that annually spends about 3,000 euro per inhabitant has come to take such measures, it is easy to understand the problems faced by poor countries. The first solution would be to promote prevention and early detection of prophylaxis, a second approach would be the creation of an interdisciplinary committee to establish which drugs have proven cost-effective and should therefore be supported and which shouldn’t. Finally, a third solution would be to use Generics, where possible."

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