Healthcare in Moldova

[2] When looking at the right to health with respect to children, Moldova achieves 96.7% of what is expected based on its current income.

[2] In regards to the right to health amongst the adult population, the country achieves only 84.7% of what is expected based on the nation's level of income.

Economic transition has caused great socioeconomic hardship in the country and the health status of the population has fallen.

Since then, MHI has become a sustainable financing mechanism that has improved the technical and allocative efficiency of the system as well as overall transparency.

The rationalization of duplicated specialized services, therefore, remains a key challenge facing the Moldovan health system.

Other challenges include health workforce shortages (particularly in rural areas) and improving equity in financing and access to care by reducing out of pocket (OOP) payments.

OOP spending on health is dominated by the cost of pharmaceuticals and this is currently a core focus of reform efforts.

[5] The Republic of Moldova has a double epidemiological burden as rates of both communicable and noncommunicable diseases have steadily increased since independence.

However, actual numbers are low (18 in 2010, 7 in 2009) and as there are only around 40 000 births annually each tragic death increases the maternal mortality rate substantially.

In 2002, there were 14 Republican hospitals, mainly in the capital city, providing specialized tertiary care and 7,995 beds.