The Romanian medical system continues to function with a "hiatus" between emergency medicine and the rest of the healthcare structure, said the rector of the "George Emil Palade" University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology in Târgu Mureş, Leonard Azamfirei, at the National Congress of Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine (CongrEMs 2026). He stressed, at the same time, that technological developments and social pressure will force the system to reconfigure itself at an