After years of delays and plans remaining only on paper, the Ministry of Health signed the works contract for the Iasi Regional Emergency Hospital.
This is what the Iasi Regional Emergency Hospital will look like.
Almost two years after the Iași City Hall issued the building permit, the Iași Regional Emergency Hospital (SRU) project enters the straight line. The Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete, announced on Saturday, October 18, the signing of the works contract, phase two, for the largest hospital in Moldova, at the headquarters of the National Agency for Health Infrastructure Development (ANDIS).
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“The works contract for the construction of the Regional Emergency Hospital from Iasi has been signed! After years of postponements, sterile promises and plans that remained only on paper, today we are talking about the facts. About the real beginning of a construction that will change not only the medical landscape of Moldova, but also people’s trust in the health system”. Minister Alexandru Rogobete wrote on Facebook.
What will the new hospital look like?
With a constructed area of over 200,000 square meters, the new hospital will have 850 beds, modern equipment and state-of-the-art medical technologies, the project having a total value estimated at 3.23 billion lei, of which 1.69 billion lei represents the value of the works in the current stage.
Plans call for the facility to be organized into care centers, with 60 emergency beds, 45 day beds and 70 outpatient clinics. The hospital will have 19 operating rooms, as well as advanced medical imaging, interventional radiology, endoscopy and interventional cardiology services.
The project went through a long period of stagnation, because, although the building permit had been signed by the Iasi City Hall as early as February 2023, the actual works did not start the following spring, as originally announced. The first interventions on the ground – the diversion of utility networks and the organization of the construction site – were postponed, and the tender for the construction work was relaunched only this year.
Minister Rogobete emphasized that the actual start of construction marks an important moment in Romania’s public health policy.
“I have always said: I don’t believe in words, but in deeds. People must see and feel that Romania is changing. That for the first time, in health, we are no longer just talking about conferences and statements, but about concrete facts. Because trust is not gained from words, but from things that happen”. he stated.
In parallel, the works at the regional hospital in Craiova are already underway, and the similar project in Cluj is to enter the final tender phase, with the signing of the execution contract expected for the first part of next year.
“It is a historic investment for Romania. After more than 35 years, our country is again building hospitals from scratch. I thank the team of the Ministry of Health and the colleagues at ANDIS, who worked seriously and professionally to make these projects happen. It is possible! We are building a modern medical system, based on results, trust and respect for people and medical staff”, the minister also sent on his Facebook page.
