This is the first decline the company has registered on the local market in the past decade and comes after booming sales during the pandemic.
Synlab’s 2022 profit went down to RON400,000, from RON7.2 million in 2021.
The number of employees rose, though, to 260.
Almost 500 new medical labs have emerged in the past five years. In Romania there are 4,477 labs overall. However, this increase does not translate in more affordable services for Romanian patients.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)