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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
Illustration: a volleyball player hits the ball at the net in a bright sports hall, with spectators in the stands.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

The «Hippocrates Cup» returns to Ungheni: a second women's volleyball tournament honouring medics

On Sunday, 21 June, on Medical Worker's Day, the Ungheni Sports School hosts the second edition of the «Hippocrates Cup» women's volleyball tournament — a contest launched last year by the Ungheni Health Centre with four teams and now billed as «republican». Behind the celebration, though, lies a harsher reality: over eight years the district has lost 26 doctors and 94 nurses, and the district hospital has 25 vacant doctor posts.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· News