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Healthcare: Infosan: About 100,000 people suffer from blindness in Romania
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Approximately 100,000 people in Romania suffer from blindness, and statistics show that 70% of the cases could have been avoided if an ophthalmological consultation had been carried out in time, according to data from Infosan, the only private pediatric ophthalmology hospital in Romania. At the same time, following a free screening campaign launched by Infosan in kindergartens in Bucharest, for the early identification of vision problems and the limitation of cases of ...
HealthMin announces project worth about 40 million euros equipping forensic medicine institutes and services
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Health Minister Alexandru Rafila said on last Thursday that a project worth about 40 million euros was launched in May, aimed at equipping the six existing forensic medicine institutes in the country and the 36 forensic medicine services in counties where there are no institutes."We have a project that we are carrying out through the World Bank and that started in May, it is in an advanced stage, in the sense that the technical working group ...
Bulgaria, Germany and Romania have highest number of hospital beds in EU reported to population
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
In 2022, in the European Union there were 2.3 million hospital beds , 6.8% less thanin 2012 (171,110). Member states with most hospital beds were Germany (642,107), France (374,290), Poland (231,789), Spain (140,551) and Romania (138,618), according to data released by Eurostat on last Thursday. Reported to the size of the population, member counties with most hospital beds per 100,000 inhabitants are Bulgaria (823), Germany (766) and Romania (728). ...
Real Estate: House sales, up by 16 pct in Romania, in first half of 2024
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
The number of homes sold nationwide increased by 16%, in the first semester of this year, compared to the same period in 2023, while in Bucharest it increased by 25%, reveals a report, published on Monday.According to the SVN Romania analysis, the strongest evolution among the most important regional residential markets in Romania was recorded by Iasi, with an annual increase in housing sales of 71%, and the weakest evolution was recorded in Arges, with a annual decrease of ...
Favorable outlook for Romanian real estate market as of H1, construction sector at all-time highs
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
As of the end of H1 2024, Romania's real estate transactions amounted to EUR 419 million, more than twice the figure registered in the same period last year, and the construction sector hit all-time highs, stimulated by massive EU-funded investments and a very active private market, shows a report by real estate consulting company Colliers."Large investments in infrastructure, salary growth well above inflation, the decent external economic background and the central banks' ...
Infrastructure: Wizz Air airline to introduce in October new direct flights from Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca to 5 destinations
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Wizz Air airline operator is introducing five new routes that will start operating in October, three of which will depart from Bucharest to Milan Malpensa, Stuttgart and Trieste, and the other two will reach Stuttgart and Lisbon from Cluj-Napoca.According to a press release of the company sent on Friday, flights from Bucharest to Milan Malpensa will be every day, to Stuttgart on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and to Trieste on Tuesdays and ...
Grampet Group opens new agricultural rail terminal in Romania
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Private rail freight and logistics operator Grampet Group has opened a new agricultural rail terminal in Romania, World Grain wrote quoed by https://www.ofimagazine.com/. With 3M tonnes/year of capacity, the company’s grain trans-shipment terminal in Dornesti was expected to strengthen the country’s position as a railway and logistics hub in Central and Southeast Europe while boosting grain ...
New investments in road and railway infrastructure, worth 700 million RON, approved by Government
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu declared on last Thursday that new investments in road and railway infrastructure, worth 700 million RON, European and budget money, will be approved in the Government meeting."Today we are also approving new investments in road and railway infrastructure, worth 700 million RON, European and budget money. It is about the construction of two road junctions on the A1 motorway, in the counties of Timis and Hunedoara," said the prime minister, at ...
Telecom.IT: Gov't approves National Strategy on artificial intelligence
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
The government approved the National Strategy in the artificial intelligence area at its meeting on last Thursday, Executive Spokesman Mihai Constantin announced."Romania has a new strategic framework on artificial intelligence that will underpin European funding dedicated to the implementation of next-generation technologies and will undoubtedly have a significant impact in all aspects of our lives, in society and in the economy. The National Strategy for ...
Average daily roaming internet traffic in Romania of users from Republic of Moldova doubles in 2023
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
The average daily roaming internet traffic in Romania of users from the Republic of Moldova doubled in 2023, reaching almost three times more than the roaming internet traffic in the Republic of Moldova of users from Romania, who paid on average almost 1 euro for every 45 MB consumed daily.The data were announced on Monday by the National Authority for Administration and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), after the publication of the Joint Report on bilateral roaming ...
Cars: Electric car registrations drop 46pct in June
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
New car registrations in Romania increased 61.7% in June this year compared to the same period in 2023, while "green" cars registered a growth of 27.4% and a market share of 20.4%, but 100% electric cars fell steeply, 46%, according to data from the Association of Automobile Manufacturers and Importers (APIA), presented on Monday at a press conference.According to the source, after the important evolution of the previous months, June 2024 comes with a 63.2% increase ...
Healthcare: THE ACTIVITY OF THE MEDICAL AND HEALTHCARE PROTECTION NETWORK IN 2023
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
In 2023: ? over 67 thousand healthcare units were in operation; ? there were, on average, 262 inhabitants1 per doctor (including family doctors), compared to 267 inhabitants in 2022; ? hospitals treated 3.7 million cases as inpatients, 504 thousand cases more than in 2022. According to the ...
39 percent of Romanians are satisfied with how public health system serves them
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
39% of Romanians surveyed are satisfied with the way the public health system serves them, according to the STADA Health Report 2024 study, which was launched for the first time in Romania on last Tuesday."Public health systems in Europe are facing growing citizen dissatisfaction with the services provided. For the fourth consecutive year, European citizens' satisfaction with their countries' health systems has fallen to around 56%, it shows ...
Trade: Cushman & Wakefield: Romanians spent €36 billion in large retail chains across 2023, up 11% vs. 2022
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Romanians spent €36 billion in large retail chains, an amount 11% higher compared with 2022, out of which the FMCG spending accounted for €22.5 billion euros (more than 60% share), according to the Romania Retail Snapshot 2024 performed by the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox real estate consultancy company, based on the financial results of 116 companies from 12 different retail segments. The second largest ...
Real Estate: Number of residential building permits down 0.5 pct over Jan – May
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
The number of residential building permits issued in Romania in the first five months of the year was 0.5 percent down from the year-ago period, shows data released on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).As many as 14,050 residential building permits were released between January 1 - May 31, 2024, with lower numbers of such authorizations recorded in the following development regions: Center (-237 permits), North-West (-122) and ...
Telecom. IT: Report: About 5.6 billion 5G subscriptions will be active until 2029 at world level
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
5G subscriptions worldwide will reach 5.6 billions until the end of 2029 and data traffic will grow by 20%, according to estimates released by the latest edition of Ericsson Mobility. The document released on Wednesday shows that the number of communication suppliers offering 5G services has grown by 50%, 40% of the total number of communications service suppliers offering Fixed Wirelesss Access, the ...
Agriculture: Hot weather extends drought for wheat and corn
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
The moderate and high drought for autumn wheat and corn is growing, acording to forecasts issued by the National Weather Administration for July 2024. For autumn wheat cultures, the humidity content for 0-10 cm soil profiles will be low (moderate pedological drought) and very low ( extreme soil dorught) in Maramures, Crisana, Oltenia, Muntenia and Dobrogea , on extensive areas in Moldova, Transylvania ...
Agroland Business System enters organic segment and operationalizes largest BIO feed factory in Romania
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Agroland Business System, the Romanian entrepreneurial retail, agriculture, and food group that owns the largest network of agricultural stores in Romania, is entering the organic segment by transforming its Caransebes feed factory to become the largest certified organic feed factory in Romania. The certification of the feed factory is part of Agroland’s strategy to focus on organic products. “From ...
Tourism : Tourist arrivals, overnight stays in Romania, up five months into 2024
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Arrivals in tourist accommodation establishments in Romania, including apartments and rooms for rent, increased by 2.5% in the first five months of 2024, y-o-y, while overnight stays jumped by 2.2%, according to data published on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).In the total reported arrivals, Romanian tourists had a share of 81.6%, while foreign visitors accounted for 18.4%.Also, between January 1 and May 31, 2024, ...
Infrastructure: TAROM signs leasing contract for two Boeing aicraft
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
TAROM has signed a leasing contract for the purchase of two Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft with CDB Aviation, the Irish subsidiary of CDB Financial Leasing Co, Ltd, the company announced on Wednesday.According to a company release sent to AGERPRES, the two aircraft are part of the modernisation process of the TAROM fleet and will be delivered between December 2025 and January 2026.The new Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft will have a capacity of 189 seats and ...