Romanian Healthcare: Insights & Updates - page 7

Bucharest will host the 12th Pharmacovigilance Workshop on 27–29 October 2025, featuring EMA updates, case studies, and hybrid participation options.

Over 240,000 people with independent income chose to pay health insurance contributions in 2024 via the Single Tax Return, according to CNAS.

Cluj-Napoca will soon become home to Romania’s first integrated center dedicated to advanced minimally invasive surgery.

Romania’s Competition Council has authorized the acquisition of Synlab’s Romanian subsidiaries by Medicover, concluding that the transaction poses no risk to competition in the medical services market.

In a significant development within the Central and Eastern European healthcare sector, Finland’s leading private healthcare provider, Mehiläinen Group, has acquired Romania’s Regina Maria healthcare network.

Appropriate dietary choices during antibiotic therapy can alleviate gastrointestinal discomfort and support the restoration of gut microbiota.

Innovative oncology treatments have significantly improved survival outcomes and quality of life for cancer patients. However, access to these therapies remains markedly unequal across the European Union (EU).

A multidisciplinary team from the Bihor County Emergency Clinical Hospital (SCJUBH) performed, for the first time in the county, an innovative surgical procedure known as HIPEC (Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy) for a patient diagnosed with recurrent ovarian cancer.

A sociological study from 2025 highlights Romanians’ dissatisfaction with corruption, lack of competent doctors, and inadequate equipment in public hospitals.

Medical breakthrough at the Bucharest University Emergency Hospital: the first thyroid arterial embolization in Romania.

Factors driving an increase in healthcare expenditures include an aging population, a shift in disease profiles toward chronic non-communicable conditions, and rising costs for medical personnel and advanced technologies.

A unique training program in Romania, dedicated to specialists in the field of chronic liver disease screening, is being carried out within the project „LIVE(RO)3 Integrated Strategic Plan: Development, Monitoring, and Quality Control in Chronic Liver Disease Screening”.

A major milestone has been reached in the development of the new headquarters for the Târgu Mureș Institute for Emergency Cardiovascular Diseases and Transplantation (IUBCVT): the construction permit has been issued.

At the end of 2024, 23,422 patients with diabetes were registered in Caraș-Severin County, representing 7.4% of the population.