Last November, another hospital fire was reported in Romania, the most significant fire in the country since 2015.
A hospital in Bucharest, Romania, where patients with the “Chinese Communist Virus” (Wuhan New Coronary Pneumonia, COVID-19) were treated, caught fire in the early hours of the 29th, and so far at least four confirmed victims have been confirmed, 102 people have been evacuated, and the cause of the fire is under investigation.
The Romanian news agency Agerpres reported that four people died in a fire at the Matei Bals hospital, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, on Friday morning (29th). The fire was extinguished by rescuers who arrived later.
Orlando Schiopu, head of Romania’s emergency services, said the fire broke out at around 5:00 local Time on the 29th and started on the first floor of the hospital, affecting four wards and evacuating and transferring 102 people to other hospitals, including several patients with moderate to severe Wuhan pneumonia, most of whom relied on respirators.
Reports say that the Matthew Barsch Infectious Diseases Hospital in Bucharest, the Romanian capital, is one of the largest and most treated hospitals in the country for patients with Wuhan pneumonia. At the time of the fire, there were 100 patients in the hospital building.
Interior Minister Raed Arafat, who is in charge of emergency affairs, noted that according to the information available so far, the evacuated patients did not suffer from burns.
Romanian health Minister Vlad Voiculescu said in an interview that Matibars is the most well-funded institute in the country and a hospital that treats a large number of patients, and that problems will obviously arise after the fire. The cause of the fire is currently under investigation.
Today’s fire is the second hospital fire to break out in Romania in three months, and another hospital fire was reported in November last year, the country’s most significant fire since 2015. At the time, a fire in the intensive care unit of a hospital in the northern town of Piatra Neamt caused by an electrical short circuit killed seven newly crowned critically ill patients on ventilators on the spot, while three others died later. The hospital said the seven men and three women were between the ages of 67 and 86. Seven others were critically injured.
As of this morning, 29 local time, there are nearly 7,700 people in hospitals across Romania who are receiving treatment for martial lung disease, including 989 seriously ill patients. According to statistics, a total of 721,513 cases have been diagnosed and 18,105 people have died in Romania.
Before the Wuhan pneumonia pandemic, Romania’s health care system was reportedly plagued by stress, corruption, inefficiency and politicization of management, as well as being one of the least developed health care infrastructures in the EU.
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