Global News by Region: Romania
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA – Vlad Mateoiu, 12, is a student at the Special School for Deaf Children No. 1 in Bucharest, Romania’s capital. His family lives in Dambovita, another county in Romania, so he stays at the boarding facility connected to the school.
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA – Andreea Maria Szabo, who is in her 20s, says she found her husband on Romania’s first dating website for people with disabilities.
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA – Mariuca Niculae, 75, is waiting in the hall of the Regina Maria Social Polyclinic in Bucharest, Romania’s capital. She says she is at the clinic because she suffers from “terrible heartaches.”
“It’s like a claw,” she says, describing the pain. “It never goes away.”
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA – Oana Livia, 26, is a mixed media artist. Livia, from Focsani, a city in eastern Romania, says she prefers to combine traditional and digital techniques to create her artwork.
To make her art, Livia first draws on paper, then retouches the pieces digitally. She says digital technology has improved her work.
“Working with programs such as Photoshop helps me escape the dictatorship of the tiny, wrongly drawn line,” she says.
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA – Amalia Solescu, 67, a retired economist, says she visited her family physician last month to ask for the discounted medicine guaranteed to her by her medical insurance. But she says her doctor said no.
Surprised, she asked why. She says her doctor told her she had to buy it herself, despite the money she has contributed to the National Health Insurance Fund. But Solescu says she can’t afford the medicine that costs 30 euros, $45 USD, with her pension of 250 euros, $360 USD.