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A family doctor's office in a health centre: on a wooden desk, a stethoscope, a blood-pressure monitor and an open medical chart, next to a bright window; a white cabinet with medical supplies in the background, in white and blue tones.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

What you can get for free from your family doctor in Ungheni: cancer screening, vaccines, TB checks

On 23 July, the director of the Ungheni Health Centre presented the district council with a mid-year report on primary healthcare for the first half of 2026. Beyond the report-style language, the five „priority directions” are, in fact, a list of prevention services any Ungheni resident can request for free — from the cervical cancer test to vaccines and tuberculosis screening. We explain what each one is, who is entitled to it, what is free and how to reach it through your family doctor — and why, in an ageing district where seven in ten people die of heart disease and cancer, prevention matters here more than the average.

Ion Calmis·25 July 2026· Explainer
A modern, brightly lit meeting room in a health centre: on a long wooden table lie folders and binders with sheets of charts, and a stethoscope rests on top of one folder; at the head of the table, beside a large window, an empty office chair; through the window a Moldovan rural landscape is visible, with a hill and a village in the valley.
LOCAL

Six health centres in Ungheni call the diaspora onto their boards — with a vote, but unpaid

A month after merging the district's health centres — from 11 down to 6 —, the Ungheni District Council is rebuilding their governing boards and inviting doctors who have left the country, as well as people from the community, to take a seat on them. The post carries a vote on the institution's strategy, budget and procurement, but it is unpaid, on a voluntary basis. Applications are due by the end of July — 24 July at the Ungheni Health Centre, 27 July according to the District Council's notice for all six centres.

Ion Calmis·16 July 2026· News
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Dozens of graduates in black gowns and mortarboards, wearing white stoles, applaud lined up along a red carpet in the college courtyard on a sunny summer day.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Ungheni's Medical College has turned out 125 nurses — its largest class in four years, in a district that has lost 94

The class of 2026 collected its diplomas on 14 July: 125 graduates, in four groups. The number climbs year after year — 85 in 2023, 119 in 2024, 119 in 2025 — and it arrives in the very district that has 59 mid-level medical staff per 10,000 inhabitants against 94 nationally. How many of the class stay home is unknown: neither the hospital nor the health centre publishes its nursing vacancies, and the state's 96,000-lei grant is written for villages.

Ion Calmis·14 July 2026· Analysis
Two Ungheni District Council staff sit at a table with a laptop in front of a roll-up banner of the European MedAccess dental-services project.
LOCAL

A 1.18-million-euro EU project promises to digitalise Ungheni's regional dental centre and a mobile dental ambulance for villages

Together with the “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Iași, the Ungheni District Council leads the cross-border MedAccess project, funded through Interreg NEXT Romania–Republic of Moldova. Of the 1.18 million euros, 678,800 go to Ungheni district. The money is meant to bring CAD/CAM technology to the regional dental centre, a mobile dental ambulance for isolated villages and a telemedicine platform, by July 2027. It is the third EU health project linking Ungheni to Iași.

Ion Calmis·1 July 2026· News
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Illustration: a blazing sun in a scorching sky over a small town in Moldova, hot asphalt and air shimmering with heat, with no identifiable people.
LOCAL

Heat to hit 38 °C in Ungheni from Tuesday, with tropical nights — orange code, red in the south

The Authority for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring has issued a heatwave warning for 28 June – 1 July. In Ungheni, in the centre of the country, the code rises from yellow (28–29 June, +33…+35 °C) to orange (30 June – 1 July, +36…+38 °C), while the south falls under a red code with +39…+41 °C. Nights stay above 20 degrees, and for the people of Ungheni the practical point is simple: how to cool off without becoming a statistic — in the municipality, only the Prut and Delia beaches have lifeguards.

Ion Calmis·28 June 2026· Explainer
A family doctor in a white coat works at a new laptop bearing an Interreg sticker, next to a printer, in a consulting room at the Ungheni Health Centre.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

A Romania–Moldova project equips 15 family doctors in Ungheni with laptops. The real stake isn't the devices, but catching the «silent» cancers early

Fifteen family doctors in the Ungheni district have received laptops and printers through «PREVENT», a cross-border project funded by the European Union, in partnership with the city of Iași and the «Grigore T. Popa» University of Medicine. The equipment is the visible part; the stated goal is another — to shift family medicine from treating disease to preventing it, with a focus on the cancers that don't hurt until it is too late: cervical, breast and colon. The project, worth about 415,000 euros, runs until April 2027.

Ion Calmis·26 June 2026· Explainer
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A hot summer day on a riverbank: a red lifeguard rescue buoy and ring, dry grass, strong midday sun.
LOCAL

Yellow heat warning and up to 35 °C: in Ungheni, safe swimming means only the Prut and Delia, where there are lifeguards

The State Hydrometeorological Service has issued a yellow heat warning for 22 June, with highs of up to 35 °C, and IGSU comes with reminders on three fronts: water, fire and health. For people in Ungheni the stake is concrete — since the start of 2026, 18 people have drowned in Moldova, two of them children, and the town has only two swimming spots with lifeguards: the Prut beach and the one on Lake Delia.

Ion Calmis·22 June 2026· Explainer
An ashtray with a stubbed-out cigarette on the windowsill of an apartment block, a no-smoking sign blurred in the background, morning light
NATIONAL

From 24 June, smoking in a block's stairwell or on your own balcony becomes an offence. An Ungheni resident risks up to 2,250 lei

A national law (no. 125/2025) sharply widens, from 24 June, the list of places where smoking is banned — from sports grounds, bus stops and beaches to apartment-block stairwells and your own balcony — and raises the fines: up to 2,250 lei for a person and up to 15,000 for a company, with suspension of activity. The police write the ticket. In a town where almost one adult in three smokes, one question is left hanging: where will people still be allowed to smoke? Ungheni City Hall promised a list of designated spots — but has not published it yet.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE