Almanac

Romania, Republic of

Capital: BucharestArea: 238.391 km²Population: 18.957.198Official Language: RomanianArmed Forces Personnel: 81.300Medical Officers: n/aMilitary Hospitals / Institutes: 11/2Missions: n/a

Surgeon General
Dragoş-Marian POPESCU, M.D., Ph.D.
Lieutenant General

Ministry of National Defence
Medical Directorate
No. 3-5, Institutul Medico-Militar Street, Sector 1,
010919 Bucharest
ROMANIA
[email protected]

Basic Task of the Medical Service

The Military Medical Service provides medical assistance and preventive medicine and develops medical research programs, with the primary goal of having healthy service personnel that can accomplish operational duties. Also, their families, military retirees and war veterans and their family members and the civilian population can receive healthcare through the military medical facilities at all levels:

primary medical assistance;
pecialty ambulatory medical assistance;
dental medical assistance;
hospital care;
rehabilitation medicine;
military medical expertise is an integrated and multidisciplinary activity consisting of a selection of candidates for the military carrier and health status evaluation of MoND personnel.

Structure

The Medical Directorate is the central specialized structure that elaborates the unitary concept for organizing, endowing and functioning of the medical and veterinary assistance in the Armed Forces, in peacetime, in crisis and wartime, continuously improving and modernizing the military medical system.

Cooperation is a core value and the Medical Directorate provides support for military commanding structures, and maintains continuous communication with the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Internal Affairs, national healthcare insurance institutions and other healthcare structures.