30.10.2017
To the attention of interested persons
NAMMD position in response to recent press allegations
The National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices (NAMMD) is surprised to find from the media that it allegedly had refused donations in the aftermath of the Collective Club related tragedy: “To address the NMA and the ministry and to be sent home and be advised not to make a stir with one’s donations…. And it was not just our company to be turned down…”
For proper information of the general public, of patients and media representatives who give due regard to their own calling by upholding the truth, the NAMMD would like to hereby make the following clarifications on:
– the legal basis of donations: Order of the Minister of Health no. 1032/2011 for approval of Rules on donations of medicinal products, sanitation supplies, medical devices, vaccines, sera and related supplies
– issue on 6 November 2015 of Order of the Minister of Health no. 1409/2015 for waiver from provisions of Article 10 of the Rules on donations of medicinal products, sanitation supplies, medical devices, vaccines, sera and related supplies, approved through Order of the Minister of Health no. 1032/2011, regarding healthcare facilities with beds delivering medical services to in-patient casualties of the Collective Club and the Vel Pitar Brasov factory incidents.
Accordingly, donations have been accepted of medication containing psychotropic and narcotic drugs, necessary for fire in-patients.
– emergency grant by the NAMMD from 4 November to 12 December 2015 of 10 approvals for donation, all concerning medications intended for major burn patients, hospitalised in various Bucharest hospitals;
– emergency grant by the NAMMD, on request by the Ministry of Health Advisory Commission for Plastic Surgery, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Microsurgery of Authorisations for special needs medicines for two products.
The NAMMD hereby points out its deep regret at the defamation of its work, ultimately so often unjustifiably engendering patients and the general public’s confusion and mistrust!! In this regard, the NAMMD would like to require the former Minister of Health, Mr. Vlad Voiculescu, to provide actual data on the company/companies whose messages he relays in his Facebook page, thus enabling the Agency to perform all verifications necessary.