Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos attended a charity event dedicated to Romania’s vulnerable children
The government’s target, regardless of who will be prime minister, is that in 2020 we no longer have institutionalized children, said Prime Minsiter Dacia Ciolos yesterday at the opening of the „Concert of Hope”, a charity event dedicated to Romania’s vulnerable children. „Romania started in 1990 with 100,000 institutionalized children in over 700 centers and slowly things changed for the better, but we still have today 57,000 children who are not in their families”, said Dacian Ciolos. In his view, along with finding families for these children, it is important that, by applying measures, such as those contained in the anti-poverty package, the dropout phenomenon to be stopped. The event at the Romanian Athenaeum was organized by „Hope and Homes for Children” Foundation Romania. (RADIO ROMANIA reports)
World Bank expresses regret for the acts of hatred towards the Roma community in Romania
World Bank expresses regret for the acts of hatred towards the Roma community in Romania which took place on Friday night
by vandalizing the National Centre for Roma Culture tent, located in University Square in Bucharest. „These facts are an aggression against the Roma community and an act of discrimination that is incompatible with European basic human rights values”, reveals a press release of the institution. The World Bank states that it fully supports Romania and the organizations representing Roma in the fight against discrimination and for the implementation of policies regarding the inclusion of this community. (RADIO ROMANIA reports)
Romania has large bread production capacities
Romania has production capacities in panification which exceed over 15 times the consumption demand, said the President of the Romanian National Association of Flour Milling and Baking Industries, Viorel Marin, in Targu Mures. According to Radio Romania Targu Mures, Viorel Marin argued that production development is not directly proportional to an increase of the quality. In his opinion, cheap bread is generally bad and the consumer is in fact the only one who can decide the fate of a product by purchasing it or not. (RADIO ROMANIA reports)
Pilot program dedicated to women who have breast cancer
In three major oncologycal centers in the country a pilot program will be launched this week dedicated to women who have breast, cancer, announced in Cluj-Napoca Romanian Health Minister, Patriciu Achimas Cadariu. The program, financed from European funds, will operate in Bucharest, Iasi and Cluj-Napoca. Health Minister, who attended a conference initiated by the Student Organization of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj- Napoca, pointed out that prevention is important and a change in this respect should produce in the system. He believes that more money is spent when diseases are detected in advanced stage. (RADIO ROMANIA reports)
Adrian Strugariu
