The head of the ATI department of the Piatra Neamț Hospital explains what happened: “An injector was turned on, immediately the suit of the nurse who was nearby caught fire and from there it spread. The doctor yelled at them to get out. ”“ Essential

“In the ATI room, there were two doctors on duty, eight nurses and four more nurses. In the room where the fire broke out there were, at that moment, two nurses and a doctor, our colleague who is now burned, transferred to Belgium He was there, I’m not sure if in the living room, but in the immediate vicinity, he was preparing to place a central line or intubate a patient.

Everything happened very quickly, I understood that an injection machine was turned on, immediately the suit of the nurse who was nearby caught fire and from there it spread. The doctor yelled at them to get out, went in to see if he could do something, but then his suit caught fire and he left.

He retired to the bathroom outside the living room, where the nurses doused his monkey’s flames with water. He has burns on 35-40 percent of the body, on the front face, from the neck down, chest, abdomen, slightly on the extremities. First he tried to get the nurses out and second he wanted to see if he could get one or two patients out.

But he didn’t have time. The other colleague also came, who was visiting the other room, he also tried to come in, to help, but it was already black, smoke, you couldn’t see anything ”, said the doctor.

Liviu Ungureanu also explained why the ATI section moved from the third to the second floor on Saturday:

“On the second floor is our main headquarters, the intensive care unit that operated before the COVID crisis. In the spring, having no circuits on the second floor, we identified above the pavilion, on the third floor, in the neurosurgery pavilion, the possibility of treating, we said, seven patients with COVID, and then reaching 12 in the fall.

A suspect lounge worked for two and all logistics, and non-Covid-free areas, where we still breathe fresh air. And at three it was the red zone, with those beds. Little by little we got the fans below to be there and we worked well in the spring and during the summer, until the beginning of fall, without having much pressure.

After September 20-25, the pressure increased and little by little we occupied all the seats from three onwards, then we had to go back to bed in two, in a front room, doing all kinds of patient movements ”.