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Most of these companies will be discussed in the sections below. The data presented

represent registration of companies, it does not say something about their activity level or

size in terms of employees or turnover.

5.6 Hospitals
Romania has a mixed system regarding hospitals, both public and private hospitals are active.

Figure 5.3 shows the development of the number of public and private hospitals between

2010 and 2016.

Figure 5.3 - Development of public and private hospitals

75 161 187 201
97 109 134
428
367 364 365 366 367 366
2 01 0 2 0 1 1 2 01 2 2 0 1 3 2 01 4 2 0 1 5 2 0 1 6
Public hospitals Private hospitals

Source: National Institute of Statistics

After the revolution in 1989 Romania had 423 public hospitals. The first private hospitals

emerged in the 1990’s. In 2011 over 60 poorly performing public hospitals were closed. Since

then the number of public hospitals stays stable around 365. The number of private hospitals

is growing rapidly, rising from 75 in 2010 up to 201 in 2016. The private hospitals have the

highest presence in the counties with the larger population centres: the city of Bucharest

(43), counties: Cluj (22), Bacau (21), Constanta (19). The public hospitals are distributed more

evenly over the counties with at least three hospitals in the smallest counties. The city of

Bucharest has a total of 50 public hospitals, the largest concentration in the country. Please

note that these data are the registered hospitals, it does not say something about the range

of their service, quality or size in terms of number of beds or turnover or quality of care.

5.6.1 Public hospitals

As discussed above, the number of public hospitals is stable since 2011. The current stock of

hospital buildings comes from the 1980’s or before. The only relatively recently built hospital

is the Regional Institute for Oncology in Iași (www.iroiasi.ro). The building was funded by the

Romanian government, the equipment through European Funds.

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