The renovated Taraclia District Hospital has been inaugurated. The building was repaired extensively and outfitted with last-generation equipment. The patients there will benefit from treatment at European standards, it is said in a communiqué of the Ministry of Health, quoted by IPN.

The investment project, implemented between February 2013 and July 2014, included the rehabilitation of the surgery bock, the intensive care section and of the first floor of the hospital. There was purchased modern apparatus, including two surgical tables, anesthesia and sterilization equipment, and a heart-lung machine.

The total cost of the project is 6.6 million lei. The largest part of the money represents investments from the development and modernization fund of the National Health Insurance Company. The Company’s director Mircea Buga said better treatment conditions for patients and work condition for the medical personnel were created at the hospital in Taraclia.

The Taraclia District Hospital was put into operation in 1989. Since then it hadn’t been repaired. About 5,000 people are hospitalized annually at this health institution.