Fire kills nine people at COVID-19 hospital in Romania
Fire kills nine people at a Romanian hospital treating COVID-19 patients, the country’s third deadly hospital fire in less than a year.
Firefighters extinguished the fire at the hospital in the eastern city of Constanta, after bringing in additional teams from nearby provinces.
According to the Interim Health Minister Cseke Attila, “113 patients were hospitalized at the time of the fire, including 10 in intensive care.
“So far 50 patients have been evacuated and transferred to other hospitals. More than 12,100 COVID-19 patients, including 315 children, were treated in Romanian hospitals including 1,364 in intensive care units.
The number of new COVID-19 infections in Romania reached 12,032, Romania has the second lowest vaccination rate among the 27 countries of the European Union.
The Romanian healthcare system was under pressure, plagued by corruption, inefficiency and politicized management even before the pandemic. The country has one of the least developed healthcare infrastructures in the EU.
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