After Bucharest, clinics are now eyeing Braşov or Cluj

Private health industry managers have been including other cities than Bucharest on their business agenda lately, and Braşov, Cluj and Constanţa are stirring operators' interest.

After having focused on Bucharest in recent years, investing tens of million euros in large facilities and private hospitals, companies on this market are now heading to big cities, where they say there is unused potential.
Braşov has been in the spotlight, with MedLife and CMU, the most aggressive operators in terms of expansion, having announced projects.
In June 2010, Iaşi saw the opening of the biggest private hospital in Romania in terms of the number of beds, in the wake of investments worth above 20m euros. So far, the Iaşi investment can be seen as the biggest outside Bucharest.
Last year, the first obstetrics and gynaecology hospital was opened in Constanţa, while Medcenter opened a clinics and a lab in the same city.
Besides these, there are Elim clinics in Argeş, Vâlcea and Bucharest.
These are the most visible investments outside Bucharest, but the number of those operating a business on the private health services market is probably higher.