ÎNFIINȚAREA DE SPITALE, INFIRMERII ȘI FARMACII ÎN ZONA RURALĂ A JUDEȚULUI DOLJ, DE LA INDEPENDENȚĂ LA PRIMUL RĂZBOI MONDIAL

Abstract

In the rural area of Dolj county, composed of 7 counties and a population of over 200,000 inhabitants, until 1881, there was no hospital. With the adoption of the Law for the establishment of rural hospitals, on June 11, 1881, the first steps were taken to put its provisions into practice. The first two rural hospitals were established in 1882, in Filiași and Bechet, financed from the county budget. Later, the hospital in Băilești was to be built, being inaugurated in 1890, followed a few years later by the hospitals in Brabova, Negoiești and Poiana Mare. In the same direction of the spread of hospital assistance in the countryside, infirmaries were established under the direction of health agents in several communes. A not inconsiderable contribution along the same path of improving the health of the inhabitants of the rural area consisted in the establishment of pharmacies in each commune at the insistence of the Superior Sanitary Council, starting in 1886. The role played by the operation of these hospitals in their area is related to their contribution to the relief of the sufferings of the sick in the rural area, as well as the promotion of the professional medical act or the familiarization of the villagers with the new institutions, taking another step on the road to the modernization of Romanian society.