Patients to choose family doctor

The deadline until patients can choose their family doctor only in the area serviced by the primary medicine entity has been prolonged till the end of October. If the patients were distributed to family doctors strictly according to their home addresses, now they can choose. In order to get his/her option officialized, the patient is notify the registration office of the medical unit or the doctor he/she chooses having the ID card and the medical insurance card. The law on compulsory medical insurance, adopted in 1998, provides for the free choice of the family doctor, but this provision has not been observed. Larisa Catrinici, the Minister for Health, does not rule out that, starting from 2009, also the pregnant women will be able to choose their obstetrician, and the maternity to give birth in.