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meters, has a surgery ward of 1,400 square meters.
When it was opened, it comprised five surgery
and intensive care rooms and a separate unit for maternity services, including a neonatology department. The surgery ward had a capacity of as many as 30-
50 surgeries per day. Only
the surgery ward equipment required an investment of EUR 3 million. The hospital also comprised 100 beds grouped into one- or two-bed rooms, suites, rooms for patients
with internal diseases, for paediatric patients and a
unit for locomotor recovery and balneal therapy. Life
Memorial Hospital includes an outpatient service unit and a laboratory of its own.
Today, the only private medical company listed on the Stock Exchange
“Today, MedLife is a Romanian-capital corporation encompassing 34 companies. It is the market leader in spite of the competing private hospitals in which foreign investors have invested huge amounts of money.
In our field, we are the only company in Romania that
is listed on the Romanian Stock Exchange, with governance and national infrastructure. In time, changes have made us much stronger.
At national level, Medlife is present in all cities with over 150,000 inhabitants and
it operates small clinics or hospitals in towns with over 10,000 inhabitants.
According to Mihai Marcu, Medlife CEO: “MedLife manages an impressive database, of approximately 5 million patients with their medical records of the past 5 years. Every day, the MedLife clinics and hospitals receive between 14,000 and 15,000 patients. One in 20 doctors in Romania is an employee of MedLife, which means that today 5% (6,800 employees) of the medical
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At that time MedLife announced that it had 80,000 subscribers in Romania.