Romania Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Healthcare=== {{Main|Healthcare in Romania}} Romania has a [[universal health care]] system; total health expenditures by the government are roughly 5% of GDP.<ref>[http://www.mediafax.ro/economic/ritli-bugetul-ministerului-sanatatii-pe-anul-2012-poate-asigura-asistenta-cel-putin-la-nivelul-anului-precedent-9041616 "Ritli: Ministry of Health budget for 2012 can provide the assistance at least at the level of previous year"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224020850/http://www.mediafax.ro/economic/ritli-bugetul-ministerului-sanatatii-pe-anul-2012-poate-asigura-asistenta-cel-putin-la-nivelul-anului-precedent-9041616 |date=24 February 2013 }}, Mediafax.ro</ref> It covers medical examinations, any surgical operations, and any post-operative medical care, and provides free or subsidised medicine for a range of diseases. The state is obliged to fund public hospitals and clinics. The most common causes of death are cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Transmissible diseases are quite common by European standards.<ref>[http://www.romanialibera.ro/stil-de-viata/sanatate/romania-locul-4-in-europa-la-tbc-193014.html "Romania, 4th in Europe in TB"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224021156/http://www.romanialibera.ro/stil-de-viata/sanatate/romania-locul-4-in-europa-la-tbc-193014.html |date=24 February 2013 }}, ''România Liberă''</ref> In 2010, Romania had 428 state and 25 private hospitals,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120629012915/http://www.wall-street.ro/articol/Economie/133347/bolnavii-nostri-vs-ai-lor-cate-spitale-are-romania-fata-de-alte-state-ue.html "Our patients vs. theirs: How many hospitals has Romania compared to other EU countries"], ''Wall-Street.ro''</ref> with 6.2 hospital beds per 1,000 people,<ref>[http://www.romanialibera.ro/stil-de-viata/sanatate/mai-putine-paturi-de-spital-pentru-romanii-bolnavi-217760.html "Fewer hospital beds for sick Romanians"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105090250/http://www.romanialibera.ro/stil-de-viata/sanatate/mai-putine-paturi-de-spital-pentru-romanii-bolnavi-217760.html |date=5 November 2013 }}, ''România Liberă''</ref> and over 200,000 medical staff, including over 52,000 doctors.<ref>[https://statistici.insse.ro/shop/index.jsp?page=tempo3&lang=ro&ind=SAN104A "Personalul medico-sanitar pe categorii, forme de proprietate, sexe, macroregiuni, regiuni de dezvoltare și județe"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070623153028/https://statistici.insse.ro/shop/index.jsp?page=tempo3&lang=ro&ind=SAN104A |date=23 June 2007 }}, ''Institutul Național de Statistică''</ref> {{As of|2013}}, the emigration rate of doctors was 9%, higher than the European average of 2.5%.<ref>[https://adevarul.ro/news/societate/de-profesie-medic-romania-incearca-ministrul-nicolaescu-sa-i-tina-doctori-tara-1_515adafb00f5182b85780fa8/index.html ""De profesie: medic în România". Cum încearcă ministrul Nicolăescu să-i țină pe doctori în țară"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130701065846/https://adevarul.ro/news/societate/de-profesie-medic-romania-incearca-ministrul-nicolaescu-sa-i-tina-doctori-tara-1_515adafb00f5182b85780fa8/index.html |date= 1 July 2013 }}, ''Adevărul'', 2 April 2013</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page