Medicover buys land for new EUR 50 mln hospital

Medicover has recently completed the acquisition of the land to build a hospital in Bucharest, which the company says will be larger than the existing private hospitals in the capital. “After the opening of the Warsaw hospital it is the second largest project Medicover is undertaking in the coming period,” said Marina Otelea, general manager of the firm.

Medicover is a private healthcare services provider active in Central and Eastern Europe. It has 6,000 corporate and 400,000 individual customers in Poland, Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Ukraine and Estonia. In Romania the firm has over 70,000 subscribers from 1,500 companies. It has centers in Bucharest, Cluj Napoca, Constanta, Focsani, Iasi, Ploiesti and Timisoara. The company offers subscription-based and separate payment services within its own network and that of partner clinics which number 140 throughout the country.