Nineteen new hospitals to be created in Moldova

Chisinau, 27 June /MOLDPRES/ - Nineteen new hospitals will be created in Moldova. The actions are provided for in a draft of the hospital reform, unveiled by the leadership of the Health Ministry today.

According to data presented by Health Minister Ruxanda Glavan, 11 medical institutions will be declared regional hospitals, four – central ones, three – specialized and one university hospital. All institutions will be subordinated to the Health Ministry.   

Glavan said that the new institutions would be set up based on present district, municipal, republican and departmental hospitals. Each hospital of the 19 ones will bring together under a common management several hospital medical institutions, which will have status of district hospitals.

Eight regional hospitals will be created in northern, central and southern Moldova and three ones – in the Chisinau city. Departments of internal medicine, general  surgery, pediatrics, infectious diseases, gynecology and obstetrics, endowed high-tech medical equipment, will work at these institutions. One regional hospital will provide medical assistance to 300,000 residents at the most.     

Two regional hospitals for adults and one for children will be in the Chisinau city. One institution will be founded based on the Municipal Clinical Hospital No 1 and the districts hospitals from Ialoveni and Straseni. The second institution will bring together the Sfanta Treime (Holy Trinity) Municipal Clinical Hospital and the hospitals from the districts of Anenii Noi and Criuleni.   

The regional hospital for children will be created based on the Municipal Clinical Hospital for Children No 1, Valentin Ignatenco Municipal Clinical Hospital and the Hospital of Infectious Diseases for Children.

The four central hospitals will be founded in the Chisinau and Balti municipalities. It is about the central hospital of mother and child, central emergency hospital,  central multipurpose hospital and the central hospital from Balti. The most complicated cases will be treated at these institutions.  

The central emergency hospital will be set up on the basis of the Emergency Medicine Institute, Clinical Hospital of Orthopedics and Traumatology and the Toma Ciorba Hospital of Infectious Diseases.  

The central multipurpose hospital will be made up of the Republican Clinical Hospital, Republican Diagnosis Centre, Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Cardiology Institute, Oncological Institute, Hospital of Dermatology and Communicable Diseases.    

The Central Hospital of Balti will be founded based on the hospital medical institutions from the Balti city, districts of Drochia, Falesti, Glodeni, Riscani and Singerei. Each central hospital will serve up to one million residents.  

According to the Health Ministry’s leadership, those three units with status of hospitals will be: the Clinical Psychiatry and Narcology Hospital, Institute of Phthisiopulmonology and the Republican Hospital for Chronic Cares.    

The project on the reformation of hospitals also sees creation of units of emergency receptions in all hospital institutions, reformation of the system of reception and coordination of calls at the National Centre of Pre-Hospital Medical Assistance, training medical staff, creation of the Unit for Implementation and Monitoring of hospitals’ reform and purchasing ambulances.       

The reorganization of the hospital sector will start in next July and will end in 2024. The reform will be implemented with the support of the government and international partners.  

Presently, 71 public hospitals work in Moldova, of which only 15 are subordinated to the Health Ministry. The rest are managed by local and central public authorities.  

(Reporter A. Zara, editor A. Raileanu)