Bucharest City Hall Explains Why It Cut "Maternal Voices" for Pregnant Women: It Was a Budget Effort of 5 Million Euros, Annually
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Bucharest City Hall explained Friday the reasons for cancelling the programme "Voucher Materna", dedicated to the support of pregnant women in the capital. The municipality showed that the measure is based on criteria of budgetary and administrative responsibility and transmitted that the savings made through this process will be redirected to the modernization of hospitals and maternity sub-orders. [...] Article PMB explains the repeal of the p…
The Bucharest City Hall makes clarifications about the program "Voucher Materna", after the project to repeal it was voted on Friday, August 28th, in the General Council of the Bucharest City Hall. Explanations of the Capital City Hall on the elimination of Mother Vouchers [...] Article Explanations of the Capital City Hall on the elimination of Mother Vouchers. "The program overlaps with already covered medical services and represents a large e…
The City Hall of the Capital has decided to abandon the support program for pregnant women, the “Maternal Vouchers”, introduced during Gabriela Firea’s mandate. It has also limited access to the aid for newborns, which was at the same time reduced by 500 lei. The Maternal Vouchers were introduced in 2018 in the form of financial support in two installments, […] The post The City Hall of the Capital justifies why it abandoned the Maternal Voucher…
The Capital City Hall claims that the decision to repeal the "Voucher Materna" program is based on its overlap with medical services already financed by the national health system, as well as the cost to the municipal budget. The program required a budgetary effort of approximately 25 million lei annually, and the administration says that the funds should be directed towards hospitals, maternity hospitals and neonatology departments.
https://cdn.edupedu.ro/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Sessence-Ciucu.jpg The General Council of the Capital approved, Friday, August 28, a decision repealing the financial incentive for pregnant women in Bucharest, according to Agerpres. They also decided...
The capital city explains the elimination of vouchers granted to pregnant women by overlapping the programme with services agreed by the national health system and by the high costs to the municipal budget.
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