Community Mental Health Centre Botanica

Centrul Comunitar de Sănătate Mintală Botanica at 28/1 Independenței Street in the Botanica district is the district's official mental-health service, designated by a Ministry of Health order in 2014 and working together with the Botanica Territorial Medical Association; unlike the city's other community centres, it is run by a private operator under the „CCSM Grup” brand and offers, besides free services, a substantial catalogue of paid ones. It works on weekdays until the evening.

For district residents, insured or not, psychiatrist and psychologist consultations, treatment and compensated medicines are free within the Single Programme; in addition there is psychotherapy, a crisis centre with accommodation, a day ward, a mobile team, speech therapy, a smoking-cessation programme and the „Recovery” addiction rehabilitation centre at 774 Muncești Road — these and psychiatric certificates follow a price list. Booking is by phone, Viber or online.

Opinions are divided: families who found a solution for depression here after years of treatment abroad, but also complaints about the attitude of some psychiatrists, the diagnoses and the tone at the reception.