Health Minister, Alexandru Rogobete: "Unfortunately, there is a quite high percentage of people who believe that, with the new electronic health insurance card, they will be microchipped."

"To begin with, we will enter a transition period, so that on the platform, services will be accessed both through the existing health card, whose validity period has been extended, even if it states that it is expired.

Unfortunately, there is still a quite high percentage of people in Romania who believe that, with the new electronic health insurance card, they will be microchipped. In other words, there is still a significant group of people - whom we cannot ignore and surely we must come to their support - who believe that medicine is done with water, energy, and nanobots. Until we overcome these elements of confusion, we, administratively, must provide access to everyone in the system, regardless of the form of access," explained the Minister of Health.