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Building and rebuilding: departments, hospitals, and hopes.

    Our story

    The Romanian healthcare is sick and needs intensive care, from all points of view: resources and management, performance review and rewarding, access to information, ethical standards and the optimism that things can change. Dăruiește Viață was founded in 2012, with the purpose of reforming the Romanian healthcare system from the ground up, by Carmen Uscatu, Oana Gheorghiu and Bianca Voinescu, who were soon joined by Paula Herlo, as Honorary President.

    Up to October 2025, the Association was managed by Carmen Uscatu and Oana Gheorghiu. Starting October 30, 2025, Oana Gheorghiu suspended herself from all executive functions and stopped being involved in the activity or projects of Dăruiește Viață.

    All your donations turn into healthcare investments. You invest money, we build hospitals, sterile rooms, operating rooms, intensive care departments, stem cell transplant departments, radiotherapy clinics. It's like investing on the stock market and being a stockholder, but your profit is measured in saved lives. It's like a Happiness Exchange, where all shares are allocated efficiently and transparently, with every investor able to see the destination of their funds at any given time.

    What we are doing

    Reforming the Romanian healthcare system, bringing hope and showing it can be done.

    Building and rebuilding: departments, hospitals and hopes.

    Leading: projects, laws and ideological battles.

    Gathering: reputation, true experts, funds.

    Defending: rights, principles, lives.

     

    Our results

     

    Our projects change lives. The lives of children and adults with severe diseases, as well as those of the medical professionals working in Romanian hospitals.

    • We’ve changed a Minister’s Order that didn’t allow patients access to treatment abroad.
    • We’ve built 20 sterile rooms, tripling our country’s transplant capacity.
    • We’ve built the first laboratory for the deep diagnosis of lymphatic cancer, in Timisoara, and equipped a similar laboratory at Fundeni Clinical Institute.
    • We’ve renovated oncology departments for children and adults in Bucharest, Timișoara, Cluj and Brașov.
    • We’ve purchased drugs and medical equipment for tens of hospitals.
    • We’ve fought the Ministry of Health and other institutions to protect patients’ rights.
    • We’ve led the first study regarding the drug shortage and offered solutions to the Ministry of Health.
    • We’ve built two ICU modular hospitals, in Bucharest (Elias Modular Hospital No. 1) and Piatra Neamț (Piatra Neamț Modular Hospital No. 2).
    • We’ve built two modular triage units for cancer patients (Sibiu County Hospital) and for the patients of Elias Emergency Hospital in Bucharest.
    • We’ve purchased protection gear and medical devices for hospitals in more than 102 hospitals all around the country in the fight against the coronavirus (1.7 tons of PPE).
    • We’ve finalized the new building of the Marie Curie Children’s Hospital in Bucharest (through the #WeBuildAHospital initiative) and equipped it with state-of-the-art devices.
    • We’re continuing the #WeBuildAHospital initiative by building a Pediatric Medical Campus at Marie Curie.

      #WeBuildAHospital – The First Children’s Hospital built using only donations and sponsorships

      Our flagship project is the rebuilding of Marie Curie Hospital, so that all children with severe diseases in Romania can get the same care they would receive in Western Europe. More than 350,000 individuals and 8,000 companies have helped build a Children’s Hospital that offers the infrastructure needed for the multidisciplinary treatment of children with cancer and other severe diseases.

      The building has been completed, donated to Marie Curie Hospital and is currently treating patients in the following departments: oncology, surgery, neurosurgery, and intensive care, as well as the 5-OR operating theater. Up next, we plan on opening the hemato-oncology and pediatric radiotherapy departments. Meanwhile, we have stood by the management and the medical staff of Marie Curie Hospital, offering support and continuous training for the medical personnel.

      At the same time, we are working on the plans for the Pediatric Medical Campus, a second building and the renovation of the current one, so that all departments of Marie Curie Hospital can benefit from the same modern infrastructure.

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