HEALTH

The trade unions in the health system have announced the triggering of the general strike, following the Government’s failure to come up with any solution for the employees who have earned less money after the enforcement of the wage law ...

Sevda Memet, resident doctor at the Hematology-Oncology and Rare Disease department of the Emergency Hospital in Constanta, has been accepted to take a master degree in business management at Stanford Graduate School of Business, dubbed as the best MBA program ...

The first lung transplant in Romania has been made in the “St. Maria” hospital in Bucharest on Wednesday, a medical first in our country, amid controversies, coming one day after the row between former Health minister Vlad Voiculescu and Bucharest ...

Hundreds of employees of the County Emergency Hospital in Craiova have interrupted work and are staging protests Monday morning in the medical unit’s courtyard, saying that their cash bonuses have been reduced by up to 50%, hotnews.ro informs. Health Minister, ...

Hundreds of nurses and doctors with the ‘Marius Nasta’ Institute, ‘Sf. Ioan’ Emergency Hospital and ‘CC Iliescu’ Institute have staged protests in front of the medical units on Thursday, dissatisfied by the cut of the cash bonuses, capped at 30%. ...

The health public system employees continue the protests even after the Easter holiday, dissatisfied with the fact that their revenues do not increase, according to the ruling coalition’s promises, even worse, their revenues fall due to the cut of cash ...

Romania ranked 6th worldwide in 2015 in terms of rate of antibiotics consumption, a survey conducted by the US science academy, quoted by Le Figaro and hotnews.ro informs. The world antibiotics consumption has increased by 65% during 2000-2015, a trend ...

In 2015 Romania (1, 060 deaths, or 24% of the EU total) recorded by far the most deaths from tuberculosis in the EU, followed by Poland (545, 12%) and France (440, 10%), according to the latest data released by Eurostat. ...

The National Institute for Public Health (INSP) has confirmed two more deaths due to the influenza virus, including a three-year-old child and a 40-year-old woman. The overall number of deaths has thus reached 104. According to INSP, one of the ...

Bucharest-Ilfov Ambulance Service Manager, Alis Grasu, has said on Monday that more than 1,400 people needed help in the past 24 hours, more than half were of code red and yellow, and 33 people suffered fractures or dislocations. The weather ...