Municipal Children’s Clinicl Hospital “Valentin Ignatenco”

Spitalul Clinic Municipal de Copii „Valentin Ignatenco” at 149 Grenoble Street in the Botanica district is the children's emergency hospital for Chișinău and its seventeen suburbs, founded in 1986 and renamed in 2003 in honour of its former chief physician. The emergency department works around the clock; planned admissions take place on weekdays.

The hospital has almost three hundred beds in ten wards: traumatology and microsurgery — the only paediatric microsurgery beds in the country — neurosurgery, general surgery, urology, ENT, three paediatric wards (including allergology and pulmonology), nephrology, psychoneurology and epilepsy, resuscitation and intensive care; there is a CT scanner, endoscopy, a laboratory and a rehabilitation unit. Children arrive via 112 or are brought directly to the emergency department; treatment is covered by CNAM, with one parent staying free of charge.

Parents' opinions are divided: thanks by name to doctors and to the allergology-pulmonology ward, but also many complaints about waiting in emergency with injured children, food portions, conditions in some wards and staff tone.