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A Romanian doctor who was injured in a fire on Saturday night that claimed ten lives while trying to save his coronavirus patients in intensive care was airlifted on a Romanian army plane to a Belgian military hospital on Sunday.
Catalin Denciu (who is 40, according to other sources, 42 years old) was on duty in the intensive care unit at Christmas County Hospital on Saturday night when a fire broke out in the intensive care unit filled with coronavirus patients. . One of the two rooms in the room burned down completely, the other managed to take the beds to the emergency room. According to media reports, Denciu also tried to rescue his patients from the burning room, but was unsuccessful, and about 40 percent of his body was burned.
Ten Covid-19 patients died in the fire – it is not yet known whether it was due to burns or smoke poisoning. The six surviving companions were transferred to the intensive care unit of a new mobile hospital in Iasi overnight.
The Romanian media in relation to the transport of the doctor who suffered burns to Belgium He recalled the 2015 tragedy in Bucharest when a fire broke out in the Bucharest Colectiv Club during a rock concert. Most of the 64 victims at that time died weeks later due to nosocomial infections. Family members blamed the health authorities for rejecting the foreign aid offered because they did not want to admit that they could not provide a suitable sterile environment for severe burn victims in Romanian hospitals.
According to Prime Minister Ludovic Orban, who left the crisis staff meeting prepared for the Christmas fire on Christmas Sunday morning, the causes of the fire are not yet known, we must await the result of the expert investigation. However, he added: all he knows is that due to the growing coronavirus epidemic, expansion work has been going on these days in the hospital’s intensive care unit.Romanian media also revealed that the Christmas hospital in Karácsonkő county is no less than eight directors took turns last year.
The director most recently resigned after the press wrote: patients suspected of having Covid must wait hours in the cold in front of the hospital until it is their turn to be examined.
In Romania, the rate of coronavirus infections has doubled in the last three weeks and the healthcare system is on the brink of collapse. Hospitals are full, empty beds are filled in minutes, medical staff complain of overcrowding.
According to the latest announcement from the ministry, in early November, there are around 1,250 beds available in the intensive care units of Covid hospitals across the country. According to the status report on Saturday, 1,172 of these were registered.
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