The Ambassador of Italy in Romania, Alfredo Durante Mangoni, and the Romanian Minister for Health, Alexandru Rafila, have renewed the Protocol for Cooperation by the Romanian Ministry of Health, Gruppo San Donato in Milan, the Bambini Cardiopatici nel Mondo Association and the Inima Copiilor Association. The ceremony took place in Bucharest, at the Marie Curie Emergency Clinical Hospital for children with heart disease.
Since 2013 the cooperation agreement has made it possible to operate on about 1,500 children with cardiovascular malformations, in Bucharest, Iași, Cluj-Napoca and Timișoara. The renewal of the Protocol extends the agreement to haematology-oncology and paves the way for bone marrow transplants to be performed.
Ambassador Durante Mangoni underscored the importance of the Italian-Romanian health partnership and the benefits of extending it, including in the light of the Memorandum signed in February by Ministers Speranza and Rafila. The Ambassador also underlined Italy’s interest in future collaboration under Romania’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), to which Italian companies and bodies could provide a notable contribution in terms of developing both health facilities and services and technical and management capabilities.
