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The head of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, General Dan Paul Iamandi, announces that he has created two commissions to investigate the fire that broke out Saturday night in the ATI section of the Piatra Neamț County Hospital, which caused 10 deaths among patients and injured. serious condition of a doctor who tried to save them. One of the committees will verify whether certain works and modifications have been carried out in the intensive care unit that would have required the application for a fire safety authorization from the Neamţ Inspectorate.
Works were planned at the hospital to increase the capacity of the Intensive Care Unit.
“I have ordered the establishment of two commissions. One that will do the investigation and establish a probable cause of the fire as soon as possible, as soon as the prosecutor allows us access to the interior, and the second commission, which will probably work as of this morning, will will take care of the field control.of compliance with the authorization conditions: let’s see if in some way in that intensive care unit there have been some changes lately that would have required the request of this document – the fire safety authorization – of the Inspection de Neamţ, “said Paul Iamandi, at the end of the emergency meeting organized at the Interior Ministry.
“From the statements of the hospital manager, made a few days before, it is known that some installation work was planned. We do not really know what it is about, that when they were presented they were presented as increasing the number of beds in intensive care. There is also information on move from floor 3 to floor 2 of intensive care patients, “said, in turn, the prime minister.
“As the hospital is old, it only had two permits in two wards that have changed in recent years,” said DSU chief Raed Arafat. “If there were no changes, he didn’t have to ask, according to the law. But if changes have been made and not requested, here’s another issue and the team that moved in will check it“Said the head of DSU.
In turn, the Secretary of State in the Interior Ministry, Bogdan Despescu, specified that the investigation in the case of the fire was assumed by the Attorney General’s Office, appointing two prosecutors who are traveling in the place. They have the support of police officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and the National Institute of Legal Medicine.
The liquidation of the fire that broke out in the Piatra Neamţ County Hospital lasted approximately 20 minutes and more than 150 people acted with 35 means of intervention, said General Paul Iamandi. The intervention was hampered by the large release of smoke, a black smoke.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
