Right down the road from Lucian and Juliana in their village, Luna de Jos, is a mental hospital. A small river flows in back of that hospital and through the village. There is no sewer system in the villages, no septic tanks, just wells and outhouses. The river is a muddy-brown color. The medical care here needs improvement in such a huge way.
People die from lack of medicine, outdated treatment and equipment.
Old ways hold strong in this country. I believe that's the reason I used to get sick each time I visited a friend of mine in a city nearly two hour's drive from Cluj. She doesn't do that anymore, but a lot of people in Romania still wash their utensils, pots and pans and dishes this way. In fact, out at a village today after church, we had lunch with a family, and I witnessed the wife washing dishes in that very manner. The past couple of days have been quite busy.