About us
Our mission and vision
The Vâlcea County Service of Legal Medicine operates as a healthcare unit within the national legal medicine network, under the methodological coordination of the “Mina Minovici” National Institute of Legal Medicine, Bucharest.
Mission
The rigorous application of medical knowledge for legal and social purposes, through impartial, objective and scientifically grounded medico-legal expert evaluations, in support of the justice system and of the citizens of Vâlcea County.
Vision
To be recognised as a reference institution for medico-legal expert evaluation at county level, through professionalism, integrity and scientific rigour, in the tradition of the Romanian school of legal medicine.
Objectives
Continuous improvement in the quality of medico-legal work, meeting the legal time limits for issuing documents, and closer cooperation with our partner judicial and medical institutions.
Taceant colloquia. Effugiat risus.
Hic locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae.
“Let conversation cease. Let laughter flee. This is the place where death delights to help the living.”
Traditional inscription in anatomy and legal medicine hallsThe history of legal medicine in Vâlcea County
The first official physician in Râmnic was Adam Ulrich, appointed as surgeon in 1792 by Bishop Filaret of Râmnic. One of his prescriptions read:
“Let inquiry be made in the gardens of Sibiu, or in the Brokantal garden, for certain fruits called pineapples; let two of these fruits be bought and sent to her ladyship, the wife of Iancu Caragea, the bivel-postelnic (high chamberlain), who is lying in after the birth of a child.” — prescription by the surgeon Adam Ulrich, Râmnic, 18th century
The first official physician in Râmnic
Adam Ulrich is appointed official surgeon of Râmnic by Bishop Filaret — one of the first landmarks of organised medical practice in the area.
The first hospital in Râmnic
Order no. 6499/1832 of the Department of Internal Affairs decides to set up a hospital in the house of Ghiță Iopivale, “where the women of the streets shall be gathered and, after examination, the sick ones shall be kept and treated for four to five weeks”. The first health districts also appear at this time, although they only begin to work in 1848, built on the old rural and mountain districts (plăși and plaiuri).
The county’s first physicians
The Austrian physician Wilhelm Zingler is the first recorded physician of the county. He is followed in 1837 by the physician Vasile Anania and the eye doctor Vasile Popovici — the latter dismissed in 1838 “for bad conduct” and replaced by the physician Iosif Binder, on a salary of 4,790 lei a year.
Hospitals of the occupying armies
Foreign armies set up hospitals in Râmnic: one for the Russian army (moved to Bucharest after four months), one for Turkish soldiers and, in the buildings of the Troianu hermitage, a hospital for 200 Austrian soldiers suspected of having cholera.
The rural hospital in Horezu
A rural hospital is founded in the market town of Horezu, with Dr. Gheorghe Sabin as its physician; it works within the monastery grounds and serves as a military field hospital in 1877. The same Dr. Gheorghe Sabin, who later became prefect of Vâlcea County, founded the hospitals in Sinești (1881) and Lădești (1896).
The birth of Romanian legal medicine
Professor Mina Minovici founds in Bucharest the first Institute of Legal Medicine organised as an autonomous institution, a model for the whole of Europe.
The hospital building in Râmnicu Vâlcea
After years in makeshift buildings, work is completed on the building that today houses the ENT and Ophthalmology departments. The director at the time, Dr. Ioan Suciu, helped to build the institution — the people of Râmnic raised a bust to him in the hospital courtyard, in recognition of this servant of Aesculapius.
The children’s hospital
On the initiative of Dr. Petre Theodorini, a native of Drăgășani “with brilliant studies in Bucharest and Paris”, a 20-bed children’s hospital is founded in Râmnicu Vâlcea, growing to 50 beds by 1948.
The first autopsy work in Vâlcea
On 1 January 1960 the first official autopsy and pathology work is recorded at the Râmnicu Vâlcea Municipal Hospital, where the autopsy technician Niță Leonard was employed; in May the Autopsy and Pathology Service is established.
Vâlcea County Emergency Hospital
The building of today’s Vâlcea County Emergency Hospital is inaugurated, initially with 700 beds, gradually extended to 1,750 beds and served by an outpatient clinic that was modern for its time. New departments are created — intensive care, physiotherapy and rehabilitation, endocrinology, cardiology, psychiatry, internal medicine, surgery with traumatology and urology, infectious diseases — reducing the flow of patients to the country’s large medical centres.
The laboratory is officially founded
In June 1973 the Vâlcea Laboratory of Legal Medicine is officially founded — the starting point of today’s institution.
Vâlcea County Service of Legal Medicine
The institution continues its medico-legal expert work as part of the national network coordinated by the “Mina Minovici” National Institute of Legal Medicine, Bucharest, serving Vâlcea County.
Archive documents and regulations
- Letter no. 2395 of 21 September 1962, issued by the Institute of Medico-Judicial Scientific Research, Bucharest.
- Letter no. 679 of 30 May 1967, issued by the Râmnicu Vâlcea Regional Town People’s Council, setting fees for medico-legal procedures.
Physicians who have worked at the Vâlcea County Service of Legal Medicine
| Physician | Professional grade | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Pîrvănescu Alexandru | specialist forensic physician | 01.10.1957 – 31.12.1970 |
| Dr. Capriel Ioana | junior forensic physician | 01.10.1969 – 30.06.1972 |
| Dr. Mihu Constantin | specialist forensic physician | 01.09.1970 – 30.09.1980 |
| Dr. Haracek Adriana | junior forensic physician | 01.09.1974 – 01.09.1975 |
| Dr. Bota Titu Doru | senior forensic physician | 01.10.1976 – 16.10.1993 |
| Dr. Penciu Marin | specialist forensic physician | 01.09.1981 – 01.08.1982 |
| Dr. Ghiță Florian | senior forensic physician | 01.02.1982 – 01.07.2015 |
| Dr. Neamu Ioan | senior forensic physician | 06.01.1988 – 01.11.2023 |
| Dr. Roncea Daniel | senior forensic physician | 16.11.1998 – present |
| Dr. Zaharia Ancuța | senior pathologist | 2008 – present |
| Dr. Duțulete Roxana | senior psychiatrist | 2012 – present |
| Dr. Avrămoiu Iordan Marian | senior forensic physician | 15.05.2013 – present |
| Dr. Moroșanu Gheorghe Gabriel | senior forensic physician | 01.07.2015 – present |
| Dr. Popa Nedelcu Radu | senior forensic physician | 01.03.2018 – present |
| Dr. Marinescu Lucreția Eliza Maria | specialist forensic physician | 01.11.2023 – present |
| Dr. Patrichi Andrei | specialist pathologist | December 2025 – July 2026 |
Our values
Professionalism
We apply high standards in every expert evaluation we carry out.
Impartiality
Our conclusions are based solely on objective evidence.
Responsibility
We take responsibility for the results and impact of our work.
Respect
We treat every person and every situation with dignity and empathy.
Our staff
The medical and support staff of the Vâlcea County Service of Legal Medicine.
Legal medicine
Dr. Roncea Daniel
Senior Forensic PhysicianHead of Service
Legal medicine
Dr. Avrămoiu Marian
Senior Forensic Physician
Dr. Avrămoiu Marian
Senior Forensic Physician- With the institution since
- 15 May 2013
- Professional experience
- Forensic physician at the Vâlcea County Service of Legal Medicine since 15 May 2013. Member of the Review and Control Commission for medico-legal documents of the “Mina Minovici” National Institute of Legal Medicine, Bucharest, appointed by Order of the Minister of Health no. 5.953 of 11 December 2024 (Official Gazette no. 1263 of 16 December 2024), amending Order no. 1.196/2013.
- Scientific publications
- Dogaroiu C., Hackman L., Gherghe E., Panaitescu E., Avramoiu M. — „Value of the appearance of left hand wrist ossification centres to age estimation in Roma population”, Romanian Journal of Legal Medicine, vol. 21, nr. 4, 2013, p. 299–304
- Dogaroiu C., Capatina C.O., Gherghe E.V., Avramoiu M. — „The importance of the ossification centre morphology in the left hand-wrist bones for age evaluation”, Romanian Journal of Legal Medicine, vol. 22, 2014, p. 105–108
Legal medicine
Dr. Moroșanu Gabriel
Senior Forensic PhysicianPhD candidate
Dr. Moroșanu Gabriel
Senior Forensic Physician PhD candidate- Education and training
- Faculty of Medicine, “Grigore T. Popa” University, Iași; residency in legal medicine at the “Mina Minovici” National Institute of Legal Medicine, Bucharest
- Professional experience
- Specialist forensic physician since 2015, now a senior forensic physician. Experience in forensic traumatology and in the assessment of personal injury and post-traumatic consequences; expert assessor in insurance medicine.
- Scientific publications
- The full list of scientific publications is available on the ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gabriel-Morosanu
- Phone
- +40 772 146 474
Legal medicine
Dr. Popa Nedelcu Radu
Senior Forensic PhysicianPhD in Medical Sciences
Dr. Popa Nedelcu Radu
Senior Forensic Physician PhD in Medical Sciences- With the institution since
- 1 March 2018
- Education and training
- Faculty of Medicine, “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca (2007–2013); residency in legal medicine at the Institute of Legal Medicine Cluj-Napoca (2014–2017); PhD in medical sciences, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu
- Professional experience
- Forensic physician at the Vâlcea County Service of Legal Medicine since March 2018, now a senior forensic physician. Previously a resident in legal medicine at the Institute of Legal Medicine Cluj-Napoca (2014–2017) and an associate lecturer at the Department of Legal Medicine of the “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca (2016–2017). Member of the Romanian College of Physicians and of the Romanian Society of Legal Medicine.
- Scientific publications
- „Transtheoretical approaches on domestic violence” — Acta Medica Transilvanica, nr. 4, 2019
- „The relationship between personality disorders and domestic violence in forensic context” — Romanian Journal of Legal Medicine, 2020
- „Individual differences in subjects with psychiatric comorbidities and personality disorders in domestic violence” — International Conference of Legal Medicine Cluj, ed. a III-a, 2020
- Poster „Omuciderea în cazuistica IML Cluj-Napoca în perioada 2014–2016” — Congresul Național de Medicină Legală, 2017
- „Epidemiological study about domestic violence” — Conference for Doctoral Students IPC, 2017
- „Relația violență domestică – omucidere raportate de IML Cluj-Napoca în perioada 2013–2017” — Conferința Clujeană de Medicină Legală, ed. I, 2018
- „Tulburările de personalitate în violența domestică” — Conferința Clujeană de Medicină Legală, ed. a II-a, 2019
- Phone
- +40 724 995 996
Legal medicine
Dr. Marinescu Lucreția
Specialist Forensic PhysicianPhD candidate
Pathology
Dr. Zaharia Ancuța
Senior Pathologist
Psychiatry
Dr. Duțulete Roxana
Senior Psychiatrist
Biology
Dărvărescu Simona
Principal Biologist
Nursing
Andrei Sorin
Senior General Nurse
Laboratory
Borta Dorina
Senior Laboratory Assistant
Nursing
Dulca Ecaterina
Senior General Nurse
Nursing
Hogea Iuliana
Senior General Nurse
Nursing
Strănutu Petruța
Senior General Nurse
Laboratory
Mateescu Constanța
Laboratory Assistant
Records and registry
Brozba Ana Maria
Medical Records Clerk
Patient transport
Grigoroiu Viorel
Stretcher-bearer
Autopsy unit
Stănică C. Constantin
Autopsy Technician
Autopsy unit
Cîrceag Mihai
Senior Autopsy Technician
Patient transport
Iepure Daniel
Stretcher-bearer
Cleaning and maintenance