Government to pass today eight strategic investment projects to be carried out under public private partnership

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila announced that the Government will adopt, on Thursday, eight strategic investment projects that will be carried out under a public private partnership (PPP), including the construction of a national blood, human plasma and stem cells bank, two regional hospitals, South Bucharest Airport and an electric transport means plant. 

"Today we are adopting the second package of strategic investments that will be made under a public private partnership. We approved the first five projects on May 24 this year. Today, we approve eight more strategic investment projects to be prepared and awarded under a public private partnership. Of these, three are in the field of healthcare, which shows the interest of the Romanian Government in improving medical services," Dancila said at the start of the Government's sitting. 

She mentioned that one of the eight projects is the building and operation, under a public private partnership, of a national blood, human plasma and stem cells bank, a solution considered in the context in which Romania has faced in the past year difficulties in securing the derivatives from plasma. 

"The second project, the Timisoara Regional Hospital, will serve the western part of our country. The third project in the field of healthcare refers to the Braila-Galati Regional Hospital, with a capacity of approximately 800 to 1,000 beds. The other five projects refer to making Arges and Dambovita rivers navigable, the construction of the South Bucharest Airport, the Siret-Baragan Canal, the construction, under a public private partnership, of an electric transport means plant and a new ski tourist complex in the Fagaras massif," she added.