A new type of medical leave! Law no. 24/2022 for the amendment and completion of the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 158/2005 on leave and social health insurance benefits, effective April 16, 2022 and published in the Official Gazette, Part I no. 156 of February 16, 2022, introduces a new type of medical leave for the care of the patient with oncological diseases.
We will present below the main provisions of this normative act:
Type of medical leave: The law introduces a new type of medical leave: “medical leave and allowances for the care of patients with oncological diseases”.
Beneficiaries: Beneficiaries of leave and allowance for the care of the patient with oncological diseases over 18 years of age the insured who, with the patient’s consent, accompanies him to surgeries and treatments prescribed by the specialist doctor.
The patient with oncological conditions can express his consent only for one person at each surgery, respectively treatment.
Minimum contribution period: This type of sick leave requires a minimum insurance period of 6 months completed in the last 12 months prior to the month for which the sick leave is granted.
Duration: The medical leave for the care of patients with oncological diseases can have a maximum duration of 45 calendar days per year, for a patient.
Allowance: The gross amount of the allowance will be 85% of the average gross monthly income for the last six months of the 12 months of the contribution period and will be fully supported from the budget of the Single National Health Insurance Fund.
Other rights: The law also stipulates that both the employee caring for the patient with oncological diseases and he will have the annual right to at least one clinical psychological evaluation session and to at least five clinical psychological counseling sessions, settled by the state. In the case of a patient with oncological conditions who has a hearing disability or deafblindness, he has the right to an authorized interpreter of the mimetic-gestural language, respectively of the specific language of the person with deafblindness, as the case may be. However, this provision will apply one year after the law appears in the Official Gazette.