Mures County is situated in the center of Romania and of Transylvania province also. It has a population of 580.000 people, from which about 140.000 live in Tirgu Mures. Mures is a multicultural area, over 40% of the inhabitants being of Hungarian nationality and the middle-age german origin "Burg" of Sighisoara (Schäßburg) located in the south part of our County.
During the period 1945-1948 the medico-legal unit functioned within
the Chair of Pathology from the Faculty of Medicine Tirgu Mures.
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Since 1966 the entire Romanian medico-legal system was
reorganized and the units from university centers became
Exterior Medico-Legal Laboratories subordinated to the
Institute of Legal Medicine "Mina Minovici" from Bucharest.
Since year 2000 all Exterior Laboratories were transformed into
Institutes of Legal Medicine, subordinated to the Ministry
of Health, based on the new law for medico-legal activity
(OG 1/2000). Our institute contains in it's structure laboratories
for pathology, toxicology, serology-biocriminalistics,
clinical legal medicine and prosecture.
Financial sources are mixed, from the public central budget and from
own incomes-tariffs paid by Police, Prosecution Offices, Tribunals, people, companies. For each forensic medical service there is
a tariff to be paid, established by Governement Decision.
Forensic experts receive a fix salary independent of the amount of work they have to do. Each salary is within a range between minimum and maximum level depending upon professional performance and the leader of the Institute yearly re-evaluates it
Our Institute coordinates professionally the medico-legal
activity from Hargita and Covasna counties also, where
Medico-Legal Services exists subordinated to the local
hospitals. |
