# Sudden stroke signs? Call 112 in Romania.

If this is happening now, call 112 in Romania before using the list or checklist.

If one side of the face suddenly droops, an arm weakens or speech becomes unclear, call 112 in Romania. Do not wait for every sign.

## What to tell the dispatcher

- **Where is the person?** Give the full address, entrance, floor and a nearby landmark.
- **What changed?** Describe the sudden signs and when you first noticed them.
- **When were they last seen well?** If you do not know the time, say so. Do not delay the call to find out.

Answer the dispatcher’s questions and follow their instructions.

## Signs that can appear suddenly

A person’s face, an arm or leg, speech or understanding may change. Sudden problems with vision, walking or balance, confusion, or a very severe headache with no known cause can also be warning signs.

- **Face:** One side may droop or a smile may become uneven.
- **Arm or leg:** Sudden weakness or numbness may affect one side of the body.
- **Speech and understanding:** Words may become slurred; the person may find it hard to speak or understand.
- **Walking and balance:** Sudden dizziness, unsteady walking, loss of balance or coordination may occur.
- **Vision:** A sudden problem may affect sight in one or both eyes.
- **Other sudden changes:** Confusion or a very severe headache with no known cause may occur.

Signs can happen together or separately. If they stop, still get help straight away.

## One-page A4 checklist

[Download the A4 checklist](/avc-primele-ore/assets/checklist-en.pdf) — Downloadable and usable offline; it has no digital entry fields.

## Hospitals named on the thrombectomy list

Romania’s Ministry of Health Order 450/2015, Article 24(c), names units included in the AP-AVCAc national priority programme for “Trombectomie/Tromboplastie” (thrombectomy/thromboplasty). This list keeps the numbering used in the order.

The act numbers 14 positions under point (c); position 7 is repealed. That leaves 13 named units.

1. **Spitalul Universitar de Urgență București** — Bucharest, Romania’s capital
2. **Spitalul Clinic Județean de Urgență Târgu Mureș** — Târgu Mureș, in central Romania
3. **Spitalul Clinic Județean de Urgență Timișoara** — Timișoara, in western Romania
4. **Spitalul Universitar de Urgență Elias** — Bucharest, Romania’s capital
5. **Spitalul Județean de Urgență «Sfântul Ioan cel Nou» Suceava** — Suceava, in north-eastern Romania
6. **Spitalul Universitar de Urgență Militar Central «Dr. Carol Davila»** — Bucharest, Romania’s capital
8. **Spitalul Clinic Județean de Urgență Sibiu** — Sibiu, in central Romania
9. **Spitalul Clinic Județean de Urgență Bihor** — Oradea, in north-western Romania
10. **Institutul Național de Neurologie și Boli Neurovasculare București** — Bucharest, Romania’s capital
11. **Spitalul Clinic Județean de Urgență Cluj-Napoca** — Cluj-Napoca, in north-western Romania
12. **Spitalul Clinic Județean de Urgență «Sf. Apostol Andrei» Constanța** — Constanța, on Romania’s Black Sea coast
13. **Spitalul Clinic Județean de Urgență Craiova** — Craiova, in southern Romania
14. **Spitalul Județean de Urgență Miercurea-Ciuc** — Miercurea-Ciuc, in eastern Transylvania

This is a legal programme list, not a live rota or capacity directory, and it does not show where a particular person will be taken. If signs appear, call 112 before using this list.

Article 24(a) is a separate list for intravenous fibrinolysis. For example, Order 1,717/2025 adds Rădăuți Municipal Hospital to point (a), not to the thrombectomy list at point (c).

## Sources, dates and limits

Sources checked: 16 October 2026.

Official sources checked on 16 October 2026. The consolidated Order 450/2015 page shows a consolidation dated 8 December 2025; a Portal Legislativ search found no later amendment to Article 24(c) by the check date.

- [Order 714/2025: Romania’s national acute-stroke protocol](https://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocumentAfis/295375) — Basis for the last-seen-well prompt and context for emergency stroke care.
- [Law 95/2006, Article 94: calls to 112 and dispatcher instructions](https://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocument/188891) — Basis for reporting an emergency at 112 and following specialised instructions.
- [Order 450/2015, Article 24(c), consolidated text](https://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocument/303008) — The legal Trombectomie/Tromboplastie list; the page shows a consolidation dated 8 December 2025.
- [Order 364/2025](https://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocumentAfis/299959) — Adds the Cluj-Napoca unit to Article 24(c).
- [Order 1,200/2025](https://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocument/303464) — Adds units in Constanța, Craiova and Miercurea-Ciuc to Article 24(c).
- [Order 1,717/2025](https://legislatie.just.ro/Public/FormaPrintabila/00000G2BHZM2F6FR0TL1NK6ZDNFVEOLV) — Adds Rădăuți to the separate intravenous-fibrinolysis list at Article 24(a).
- [NHS: Symptoms of a stroke](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stroke/symptoms/) — Public warning signs and the note that stopped symptoms still need urgent help.
- [CDC: Signs and Symptoms of Stroke](https://www.cdc.gov/stroke/signs-symptoms/index.html) — Additional public warning signs; its emergency-number instructions apply in the United States, not Romania.
- [CNCPIC/MAI: emergency-call location](https://cncpic.mai.gov.ro/localizare-aml-sts) — Limitations of emergency-call location methods.
- [B2 SMURD ambulance photograph, Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ambulan%C8%9B%C4%83_B2_SMURD.jpg) — Spotting the World; CC BY-SA 4.0; photographed 1 December 2022.

Checking sources is not a clinical review. This page has not been clinically reviewed and does not replace assessment by medical staff.

Researched, curated and published by Marius Comper