Private health industry managers have been including other cities than Bucharest on their business agenda lately, and Brașov, Cluj and Constanța are stirring operators’ interest.
After having focused on Bucharest in recent years, investing
tens of million euros in large facilities and private hospitals,
companies on this market are now heading to big cities, where they
say there is unused potential.
Brașov has been in the spotlight, with MedLife and CMU, the most
aggressive operators in terms of expansion, having announced
projects.
In June 2010, Iași saw the opening of the biggest private hospital
in Romania in terms of the number of beds, in the wake of
investments worth above 20m euros. So far, the Iași investment can
be seen as the biggest outside Bucharest.
Last year, the first obstetrics and gynaecology hospital was opened
in Constanța, while Medcenter opened a clinics and a lab in the
same city.
Besides these, there are Elim clinics in Argeș, Vâlcea and
Bucharest.
These are the most visible investments outside Bucharest, but the
number of those operating a business on the private health services
market is probably higher.