Romanian Hospital to Benefit from Pirelli Sponsored Training

Pirelli Tyre has signed a memorandum of cooperation with Romania’s Health Ministry, pledging to finance a training programme for staff at a hospital in Slatina, where the Italian company’s Romanian factory is located. Medical staff from the County Emergency Hospital’s Emergency Reception Unit will receive training at Milan’s Niguardia hospital, continuing a cooperation between the two units that began around a year and a half ago.

The document was signed in Slatina by Pirelli Tyre’s Romania director Enrico Malerba and Romanian health minister Ioan Bazac on July 23. Italy’s ambassador to Romania, Mario Cospito, also attended the signing ceremony.

“Niguardia specialists will provide in Romania as well as in Italy a transfer of knowledge and protocols to the Slatina medical personnel for the sections of emergency medicine, emergency surgery, anaesthesia and intensive care and emergency gynaecology,” health minister Bazac told Romania’s Fiananciarul. “This is what I have repeatedly said that the health care system is lacking – namely rules and protocols.” Balzac added that he hoped cooperative undertakings between companies and public institutions such as this will soon become nationwide practice.

A number of exchanges have taken place since the first cooperation between the Milan and Slatina hospitals was arranged, including Pirelli supported experience swaps in which Romanian doctors visited the Italian hospital. Pirelli has also donated medical equipment to the hospital in Slatina.