9 People Killed Due to Fire at Romanian COVID-19 Hspital

The officials of the Romanian hospital treating COVID-19 people said that nine people were killed on Friday when a fire exploded in an intensive care unit in Rome.

At about 755 GMT in the Eastern City of Constanta, firefighters extinguished the fire and brought in further teams from the nearby counties.

Patients from lower stages in the hospital and firefighters carrying people were shown in video footage.

Interim health minister Cseke Attila said that at the time of the fire 113 patients were in the hospital, 10 of them in the intensive care centre.

Emergency response teams have set up a mobile triage unit near the hospital and 50 patients have been evacuated to other hospitals up to this date.

More than 12.100 COVID-19 were received as of Thursday, including 315 children, including 1364 in intensive care units, in Romanians hospitals.

The number of new infections with COVID-19 in Romania reached 12,032 on Thursday and there was a new record high level of intensive care across the country. In the 27-nation European Union, Romania has the second-lowest vaccination rate.

Four patients were killed in a fire in the capital of Bucharest, in February at a COVID-19 hospital. In the Piatra Neamt County Hospital, 10 people died last November.

Prior to the pandemic, Romania had suffered from the pressure, corruption, inefficiency and politicised management of its healthcare system. The country has one of the least developed health facilities in the EU.

In the last three decades the State has built one hospital, spending the least on healthcare in the EU, with the emigration of ten thousand doctors and nurses.