Institute of Mother and Child

Institutul Mamei și Copilului (IMSP IMșiC) at 93 Burebista Street in the Botanica district is the largest obstetrics, neonatology and paediatrics institution in the Republic of Moldova — a level-III national centre with over nine hundred beds, founded in 1982 and the clinical base for eighteen departments of the Medical University. The maternity unit and paediatric emergency admissions work around the clock; the institute's second address is the „Emilian Coțaga” Clinic at 2 Vasile Alecsandri Street.

It houses the Perinatal Centre with the maternity hospital, the „Natalia Gheorghiu” Paediatric Surgery Clinic, the Paediatrics Clinic, resuscitation and intensive-care units, the republican consultative polyclinics for women and for children, the Medical Genetics Centre, the colposcopy reference centre and a blood bank. CNAM-insured patients do not pay for contracted services; the uninsured have published tariffs; planned admissions follow the conditions on the website, and consultations can be booked online.

Patient opinions are mostly negative, among the weakest of the city's large hospitals: recent reviews describe a lack of attention to patients without a personal doctor, the tone of staff in some wards, communication mainly in Russian and the conditions; there are also thanks to specific doctors and to the surgical teams.