Most of Romania’s hospital infrastructure was designed 50-60 years ago, when the needs for health services were different from today. The Romanian hospital network is still very fragmented and often uses old and inadequate buildings – some even 100 years old.
Wards are designed to host four to six patients in each room, which often have no private bathroom and don’t meet fire protection standards. In some cases, hospital’s pavilions are located so far from each other that patients have to be driven in ambulances from one facility to another of the same hospital. Most facilities are also poorly connected to the more rural areas.