Romania’s Health Ministry expects to receive in April, offers for the design, construction and equipping of 32 hospitals countrywide, projects that will rise to an estimated RON13.7 billion (EUR3.7 billion), VAT included, and that are to be finished in 2012.
The technical economic indicators for each project have already been approved in 2007 through government decision.
The funds to finance the projects will come from the budget of the Health Ministry, the state budget and local budgets, as well as bank loans.
The ministry mulls building four regional hospitals in Romania’s towns of Iasi, Targu-Mures, Craiova and Timisoara and 18 county hospitals in Alba-Iulia, Arad, Pitesti, Bacau, Oradea, Bistrita, Braila, Brasov, Calarasi, Resita, Giurgiu, Deva, Galati, Turnu-Severin, Piatra-Neamţ, Ploieşti, Sibiu and Suceava. In Mures county, the ministry aims to build three municipal hospitals, three city hospitals and another four communal hospitals.
The contracts will be granted through open bid, and will be developed onto a four-year interval, until 2012.
The Targu-Mures regional hospital is the largest project, whose value was estimated at RON895.7 million.
(The total value of the projects was calculated using the central bank’s indicative rate on Wednesday of EUR1-RON3.6799)