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Neamț County Disaster Management reported 10 deaths in connection with a fire at Christmas Hospital where the intensive care unit caught fire. The room was used to treat coronavirus patients and the patients were hooked up to a ventilator. Authorities have enforced an intervention code marked in red, with 5 ambulances marching to the scene, writes Maszol.
To update:
According to Maszol, the number of deaths increased to twelve: two patients died from their burns.
We wrote before:
At around 7:30 on Saturday, the hospital’s intensive care unit caught fire, with a total of 17 critically ill patients treated in two rooms.
According to the information, a short circuit may have caused the fire.
According to the Neam County Disaster Management Spokespersonțthey are in crisis for another week.Among them is the doctor who rushed to help defenseless patients in the intensive care unit. The doctor on duty suffered second and third degree burns on 80 percent of the surface of his body, writes the portal.
“I could say that he threw himself into the fire to save as many lives as possible. The assistant also tried to help her, ”the hospital director told Mediafax.
According to news television one of the automated equipment caught fire and the fire spread within seconds in the oxygen-enriched environment.
Firefighters who arrived at the scene prevented the fire from spreading to the rest of the hospital. The SMURD ambulance service transports survivors to Iasi, where they are taken by the intensive care unit of a recently established mobile hospital for Covid-19 patients on the outskirts of the city.
Health Minister Nelu Tataru traveled to the scene and Prime Minister Ludovic Orban supervises the work of the crisis team created in the Interior Ministry. In the case, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation initiated a process against an unknown author on suspicion of homicide by negligence.
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