Ministry of Health of Romania

The Ministry of Health has the following main competences:

• Development of policies, strategies and action programmes in the field of public health, and monitoring their implementation at national, regional and local levels;
• Assessment and monitoring of the health of the general population, designing strategies to improve it and informing the central government on health indicators, trends and measures necessary for their improvement;
• Monitoring, control and evaluation of the functioning and activities of medical institutions and taking the necessary steps to improve their quality;
• Ensuring, in collaboration with local and central public administration, human resources as well as material and financial resources for the functioning of public health institutions;
• Promotion of the education of media on public health;
• Participation in preventing or reducing the effects of epidemics; and
• Management of relations with the World Health Organisation and other international organisations in similar areas of interest.

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