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Health: The state will build hospitals in Iasi, Cluj and Craiova with European money
Nicolae Banicioiu, the minister of health, announced that three regional hospitals will be built in Iasi, Cluj and Craiova only with European funds, the investment amounting to 1 billion euro.
“We succeeded in signing a Partnership accord for 2014-2020 for 1 billion euro. We will have allocations for infrastructure, screening, research and personnel training. The most important investment of the accord, and at the same time our priority, is to build three regional hospitals in Iasi, Cluj and Craiova only from European funds,” Banicioiu declared for Mediafax.
According to the minister, the areas for the erection of hospitals were chosen taking into account the existing units.“We chose to build regional hospitals in Iasi, Cluj and Craiova because they are the least favored areas. We will also rehabilitate several county hospitals and local infrastructures. We found solutions with the Ministry of European Funds to finance medical equipment from structural funds. In the meantime, we began several projects, the first one being the purchase of angiography equipment for 25 million euro,” the minister said.
He added that some people had blamed him for buying equipment when there were not physicians who could work with it. “If you don’t buy equipment you don’t have physicians either. When you give the equipment then the hospital has to train personnel. That means radiologists and cardiologists. We will have a training program for Romanian physicians with European financing and foreign teachers. We will also develop the program of cardiovascular surgery. In 2-2.5 years we will solve the problem of pediatric cardiovascular surgery and we will no longer send children abroad for treatment,” Banicioiu added.