(Switzerland supports ongoing healthcare reforms in Romania. Photo credit: Swiss TPH)
From 2012-2019, Swiss TPH collaborated with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to assist in the Romanian integration process into the EU in the area of health systems strengthening. Swiss TPH supported the Romanian population through project facilitation that improved access to health and social services to the most vulnerable populations, such as training programmes for emergency care services, ultimately contributing to the goal of Universal Health Coverage. The public health system in Romania faces major challenges, despite considerable progress in recent years. The infant mortality rate remains the highest in the European Union (EU), and life expectancy is low in relation to the EU average, with the average life expectancy for a woman being 79.1 years and 71.7 years for a man. The large migration of medical professionals to Western Europe and a struggling economy are an additional burden to the health sector. Thus, Romanian authorities have vested interests in health system reform to not only improve basic healthcare services, but to also make the health labour market more attractive. Switzerland has supported the Romanian Government in its health sector reform for nearly 20 years.
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