Romanian health system history

Romanian hospitals

Colţea Hospital was built by Mihai Cantacuzino between 1701 and 1703, comprised of many buildings, each with 12 to 30 beds, a church, three chapels, a school, and doctors' and teachers' houses.

Pantelimon Hospital was raised in 1733 by Grigore II Ghica. The surface area of the Pantelimon Hospital land property was 4,000,000 m². The hospital had in its inventory a house for infectious diseases and a house for persons with disabilities.

Filantropia Hospital had a capacity of 70 beds and was built in 1806-1812, during the Russian occupation.

From 1830 onwards, the health system in Romania was centralized. The name of the organisation was Civil Hospitals Eforia.

By tradition, the access of the poor or the disavantaged to the Romanian healthcare system was free. (There are many documented examples regarding this, such as Alexandu Ipsilanti's order of 20 November 1820 or Thornton's travel book from 1812, or some official documents of the Romanian government dating to 1811.)

In 1830 the Brâncoveanu Hospital was inaugurated.

Romanian doctors

The Romanian healthcare system has been organized since 1700. At that time the doctors were from France, Italy, or Austria (in Transylvania). The first Romanian but doctors graduated Medicine in Vienna or Paris at the beginning of the 19th century (such as Ştefan Manega or Ioan Serafim, who received his degree in Paris on 27 July 1815).

The Romanian healthcare system has its unknown heroes. During the 1828 plague, 21 doctors (of 26 total doctors in the city) were killed by the plague in Bucharest.

Vaccination

Smallpox vaccination was used since 1800. Iacob Polaryno (Constantin Brâncoveanu's doctor) published a theory for smallpox prevention in 1715 in Venice.

Considering the small number of personnel in the healthcare system in 1815 and the danger of epidemics, a way to work around the problem was found. The vaccination procedure was taught in theology schools, so smallpox was not prevented using Orthodox priests.

Medical universities and faculties

Victor Babeş University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Timişoara
Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Bucureşti
Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iaşi
Iuliu Haţieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Cluj-Napoca
University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova
University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureş
Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Ovidius University of Constanţa
Victor Papilian Faculty of Medicine of the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of University of Oradea
Faculty of Medicine of Transilvania University of Braşov
Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Lower Danube University of Galati
Faculty of Medicine of the Vasile Goldiş Western University of Arad (a private university)

Medical organizations

Telemedicine

Romanian National Partnership in Telemedicine

Romanian Partners for the Pilot are:

“Sfântul Ioan” Hospital Bucharest;
University Hospital Bucharest;
Military Hospital Bucharest;
Floreasca Emergency Hospital;
“V. Babeş” Hospital Bucharest;
"Sfânta Maria” Hospital Bucharest.
“Sfântul Spiridon” Hospital Iaşi;
Craiova District Hospital;
Timişoara District Hospital;
Târgu Mureş District Hospital;

Modern health care systems have improved in Romania since the fall of the Ceauşescu regime in 1989.

Healthcare in Modern Romania

Although Romania has made much progress in modernizing their healthcare system, there is much work to be done. Vaccination rates are near 100%, but malnutrition is still an issue[1] and maternal mortality rates are among the highest in Europe, primarily due to complications from abortion[2].

External links

Romania: health profile from the DFID Health Resource Centre.

Healthcare Systems in Transition: A Profile on Romania from the World Health Organization