Municipal Clinicl Hospital “Gheorghe Paladi”

Spitalul Clinic Municipal „Gheorghe Paladi” at 20 Melestiu Street in the Centru district — known to generations as Municipal Clinical Hospital No. 1 — is the municipality's largest hospital, founded in 1960 and a university clinical base since 1963. It admits patients around the clock, all year.

The hospital has almost thirty clinical wards in three major services: the Perinatal Centre with the maternity unit, obstetrics, pregnancy pathology and gynaecology wards; the Neonatal-Paediatric Centre with newborn resuscitation and premature-baby care; and the Surgical-Somatic Service with surgery, vascular surgery, internal medicine, cardiology, endocrinology and intensive care. A new CT scanner has been in place since 2025. Admission is with a family-doctor referral, an ambulance sheet, by self-referral to emergency, or for a fee according to the tariff catalogue; pregnant women are admitted regardless of residence registration.

Patient opinions are divided, with a positive tilt for the maternity and gynaecology wards: recent reviews praise doctors by name and the conditions in renovated rooms; complaints concern waiting for surgery after admission, unanswered phones and individual cases of attitude.