A new mobile app has recently launched in Romania, allowing users to make doctor appointments, find an analysis laboratory, or an ambulance service online.

The app, called Dispensar, and available free of charge in the App Store and the Google Play Store, capitalizes on the more than 75% of Romanians using a smartphone.

After downloading the app, the user has to create a login account, choose the specialty for which they wants a medical service, send a request to the selected clinics, and then choose the clinic. The clinics that respond to the request would send the user the appointment date and hour, the doctor’s name, and the cost of the consultation.

Dispensar was launched as a pilot project in Bucharest in June, but it will later expand nationwide, reports local Mediafax. Most of the clinics and medical practices in the capital can currently be found via the new app, which is available in Romanian.

Both the clinics and the patients can use the app.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com