Perspectives Regarding the Right to Health and the Access to Medical Emergency Services

The article contains general aspects regarding the right to health and analyzes the European and national regulations in this regard, outlining certain elements specific to this right. Although the research starts from these generalities, it continues with particular aspects of access to emergency medical services for citizens, exemplifying concrete statistics from one of Romania's counties and the difficulties faced by the emergency medical system during the COVID-19 pandemics. The research is based on certain specialized bibliographic resources, but also on information from the written press from that time, but especially on the findings contained in the Special Report of the Romanian Ombudsman in the field of health, which captures very well these deficiencies from the pandemic period and not only. By comparing the situation of the existing ambulances in the inventory of the Brasov County Ambulance Service in 2020 and in 2021, it can be seen that the situation did not improve during the pandemics. Even now, there is no integrated solution at the national level to improve private individuals' access to emergency medical services.