Romania has a universal healthcare system, hence all public hospitals are charge-free and available to each citizen of the European Union.
[3] As a result of the European recession,[4] the executive has decided to shut down 67 hospitals nationwide.
[5] In Romania, each hospital is assigned to a certain city, town, region or medical university.
Such hospitals have a state-of-the-art medical technologies and tend to perform experimental operations.
A sanatorium (sanatoriu in Romanian) is a recovery facility where patients with a chronic disease are being admitted into shortly before treatment.