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