There were over 60,000 healthcare facilities operating in Romania in 2016, the public and the private sectors combined, 49,000 of which were in urban areas and 11,000 in the countryside, according to data released on Friday by the National Statistics Institute (INS).
A breakdown by categories shows 570 were hospitals; 800 were diagnosis and treatment centres, medical centres and healthcare centres; 470 were autonomous or hospital integrated specialist outpatient care facilities; 6,300 were medical and dental laboratories; more than 40,000 were doctor's offices and 9,500 were pharmacies and similar.
In the countryside, a family medicine office would tend to 1.3 more patients from the resident population than a similar office in the urban areas.
The INS data show that while the number of independent specialist doctor's offices operating in urban areas was 10,400, the same number in the countryside was 27.2 times lower, meaning just 381 offices. Consequently an independent specialist doctor's office in the countryside would have to tend to 23.4 times more patients than one similar office in the urban areas.
As far as the staff size is concerned, the healthcare system in 2016 had 57,300 doctors, 16,400 dentists, 17,200 pharmacists, 137,200 high-school graduated healthcare staff, and 66,300 ancillary medical staff.
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