The Constitutional Court (CC) will request Parliament to remove certain shortcomings from the legislation on health protection. The decision was taken by the constitutional judges on January 30 following a challenge submitted by Liberal MPs, who disputed the constitutionality of the Government Decision on the reorganization of public medical-sanitary institutions, IPN reports.

The authors of the challenge said they consider that the reorganization of the Mother and Child Institute by absorbing the National Reproductive Health and Medical Genetics Center and the reorganization of the National Clinical Hospital by absorbing the Cardio-Vascular Surgery Center are unconstitutional.

The Constitutional Court decided to stop examining the constitutionality of this decision, arguing the invoked issue is not related to constitutionality. Two separate opinions were expressed on this decision.

One of the authors of the challenge Valeriu Munteanu said that by its decision, the Constitutional Court admitted that the legislation contains faults. After the Court makes its request, Parliament is to amend the legislation, while the Government is to propose a strategy for reforming the medical system and to show that it is thinking about the people’s health too, not only about the plots of the reorganized institutions.