Regina Maria Foundation opens second social clinic in Bucharest

Regina Maria Social Clinics Foundation opened earlier this week the second social clinic in Bucharest, after an investment of EUR 900,000. It offers medical services at accessible prices to people with a low monthly income of under RON 500 per family member, as well as those with no income at all. The clinic, which covers 450 sqm, is located downtown Bucharest and comprises ten medical cabinets. It has a staff of up to 40 doctors who will work part-time. “There are almost 200,000 employees who get the minimum wage in Bucharest, and 38,000 other employees with the same salary level in the towns located in Ilfov county. Bucharest also hosts over 450,000 pensioners, and we estimate that half of them fit our profile,” said Andreea Tudose, director of Regina Maria Social Clinics Foundation. The clinic will be funded with money raised by fundraising actions (in a proportion of 70%), and with money from paying patients’ contributions. Some of the funds needed to run the clinic will also come from Sheida Teahouse, located inside the same building, which functions as a social business. The organisation estimates that the monthly costs of the two social clinics will amount to EUR 20,000. The Regina Maria Social Clinics Foundation was founded by Wargha Enayati, who’s also the founder of the Regina Maria private healthcare network, one of the biggest in Romania. Several private companies support the foundation with sponsorships. Romanian healthcare operator Regina Maria hopes for EUR 67 mln turnover Regina Maria’s Baneasa Hospital becomes first Romanian medical unit to get JCI international accreditation Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com