Patients can now schedule an appointment with their family doctor, or with a specialist at the medical institution of their registration, online at https://sia.amp.md, IPN reports.

Alexandru Rosioru, the head of the Ministry of Health's e-Transformation Service, says the procedure is extremely simple. Patients need to introduce their name and personal code in the application, and after being identified in the database, the doctor's schedule will appear on the screen. The appointment will be then confirmed either online or by telephone. If the online system fails to identify a patient, the user needs to report this to the medical institution of his or her registration and get a personal digital file.

Alexandru Rosioru recalled that the visits to family doctors are free of charge, and for a fee to specialist doctors, unless the patient is referred to the specialist by the family doctor.

The system is not yet available nationwide as not all the medical institutions operate  computers. 400 computers were bought to be distributed to family doctors' centers across the country, but some 2,000 units are still needed to fully cover the needs.