Chronic Psychiatric Hospital in Siret, Suceava county, is an institution that was really reborn after 2000. In 2005-2006, when the new buildings where this hospital is functioning today were opened, a very sad history of more than 30 years was totally left behind.
Many of the residents of this hospital have been hosted in the former hospital for infant neuropsychiatry in Siret, established in 1967, the largest hospital of this kind in Romania, with more than 2000 patients, children and young people, over the years. It functioned for a while in an old barrack, and afterwards in a new building for neuropsychiatric illnesses. Terrifying buildings of painful memories and shattering testimonies.
Together with the reorganization of the national system for psychiatric assistance, radical changes happened to that hospital. With financial support from the public budget, with considerable help from the private foundations, but especially with the carefulness and professionalism of employees and volunteers, this hospital and its 120 patients started a new life. Nowadays, the standards of this hospital are more than decent and incomparable with the past: modern buildings with high quality furniture and medical equipment. The patients are treated in normal conditions, and many of them are even capable of doing activities for self-sustainability.
In December 2016 and January 2017, EYECON MEDICAL has delivered a considerable number of patient beds for two wards of this hospital, through a modernization project developed in several pavilions of this institution.
