In Romania, hospitals or other public interest buildings are erected in the absence of any standards or guidelines as the European legislation in the field is now being implemented.
In the private sector, those who build hospitals hire European consultants "because if the implementation of some rules is decided, Romanian authorities are usually more catholic than Catholics," according to businesspeople.
Whilst there are some rules about air filtration, furniture or paint, the moving of dirty laundry, those who build hospitals do not have any information on the area the buildings should be located in, the number of parking places, number of ambulances, or on what a hospital located at the outskirts should do compared with a downtown one.
The recent incident of Panait Sarbu hospital (Giulesti maternity hospital) brings out, besides an extremely poorly developed hospital infrastructure, the lack of organisation and discipline in Romanian hospitals, visible right from their gates.
In Romania, hospitals or other public interest buildings are erected in the absence of any standards or guidelines as the European legislation in the field is now being implemented.
In the private sector, those who build hospitals hire European consultants "because if the implementation of some rules is decided, Romanian authorities are usually more catholic than Catholics," according to businesspeople.
Whilst there are some rules about air filtration, furniture or paint, the moving of dirty laundry, those who build hospitals do not have any information on the area the buildings should be located in, the number of parking places, number of ambulances, or on what a hospital located at the outskirts should do compared with a downtown one.
The recent incident of Panait Sarbu hospital (Giulesti maternity hospital) brings out, besides an extremely poorly devel