New emergency unit at the Hospital Floreasca

A new emergency unit room was inaugurated at the Floreasca Bucharest hospital.

Minister of Health, Dr. Raed Arafat said, according to Agerpres, that the unit from Floreasca Hospital is the second of its kind opened in Bucharest in almost a year, and expressed his hope that other ones will be opened in the country and in the capital.

The first unit was opened at University Hospital, where in the next few days will be finalized and rehabilitation in ICU.

"Next year we hope to find money to start at least a further reform of the UPU in Bucharest in addition to smaller projects of rehabilitation in hospitals that are fields on other fields than emergency," said the Health Minister.

Raed Arafat said that for a sick person, an unit as that from Floreasca Hospital is "greater safety, respect and dignity, because they will enter into a space that is no different from those in other countries with tradition in this area ".

Investment of 10.6 million lei

The Head of SMURD Bucharest, Dr. Bogdan Oprita, said that the new emergency receiving unit (UPU) has a capacity of 35 beds, the European standards being respected in the field.

The health ministry allocated to the emergency unit at the Floreasca Hospital 10.6 million lei for the new construction (reinforcement of old parts and build a new parts).

Also, for the equipment were given 300,000 euros from the World Bank.

The furniture was provided by the Ministry of Health and the Foundation for SMURD, which contributed with 32 percent of the amounts collected from the population by allocating 2 percent from the income tax.

The current unit for receiving emergency has 1,000 square feet and the number of beds increased from eight to 35 for emergencies.

In the old emergency unit were treated 450 in eight beds.
By expanding the number of emergency beds, the number of emergencies will increase to about 1,800. The construction began in 2010.

The Health Minister attended on Sunday the opening Oncology Center in Oradea.

Raed Arafat said on this occasion those regional centers reduce pressure on existing oncology institutes and that would need some other such centers in the country.

Hospitals closed last year, now reopened

An increasing number of hospitals closed last year in an attempt to reform health care, began work in recent months.

Radio Romania correspondents report that these units can provide services to several hundred thousand people.

In Mehedinti, hospitals were reopened in Strehaia and Vânju Mare – the only ones in the county who have ceased operations in 2011.

According to the correspondent of Radio Romania News, Mihai Badescu, he submits that on these depend almost one hundred thousand patients.

The two hospitals will provide medical services for a territory inhabited by over 90,000 people who went even 70 km from home, at Turnu Severin.

"It is fixed the biggest mistake that was made. The hundreds years old hospital, that should never be closed. We went to Turnu Severin and died on the way. It is something great for our city what happened," said a patient.

People say it has been very difficult without the hospital and they had to go to Severin to be treated.

200 local people came Monday to reopen the sanitary unit in Strehaia

These people will have in their city health services, from which they have been deprived since April 2011.

The two hospitals will have together 55 beds and will also provide emergency services less serious.

"Both here and in Vânju Mare, we have four specialty offices: internal medicine, pediatrics, surgery and obstetrics and gynecology. They will work under professional offices. We will have specialists in those specialties.

"We will have in every site an examination laboratory and in parallel we have also a section with beds for chronically diseases. The minor and medium emergencies could be dealt with under hospitalization day", said the county hospital manager, Doina Borugă.

Translated by Alexandra-Diana Mircea
MTTLC, Bucharest University