Fire in Romania's Corona Hospital, 7 patients died

Last November too, 10 people died in a Kovid fire in the northern city of Piyatra Neemat. In January, another fire engulfed a ward of the Matei Bals hospital in Bucharest, killing at least five people.

Bucharest: Seven people died in a fire at a hospital in the Romanian city of Constanta on Friday morning. The head of the city's emergency inspection office, Constantin Amarandi, said that all the deceased were admitted to the ICU of Konstanta Hospital. Many patients of Karona were willing in the hospital. 

There were so many patients in the hospital

Romania's Interior Minister Lucian Bode said the death toll was initially reported as 9 from a "mistake" while only 7 people had died. Of these, five died in the hospital and two died while being taken to another hospital. The Health Ministry said in a statement that there were 113 patients in the hospital and all the surviving patients have been evacuated. The ministry said that the fire was extinguished by the afternoon, but the cause of the fire is not yet known.

President raised questions on health system

President Klaus Iohannes said in a statement released on Friday that the Romanian state had "failed in its fundamental mission to protect its citizens". I am stunned by this accident which happened this morning at Konstanta Hospital for Infectious Diseases.' He said, there is a terrible cycle of events that confirms Romania's lack of health infrastructure. The president said Romania's 'outdated' health system has been under tremendous pressure from the pandemic.

Fire in 3 hospitals within a year

Let us tell you, due to the rapid increase in the cases of Kovid-19 in Romania, the number of patients admitted to the hospital has increased rapidly. Romania had the highest number of cases since the start of the Kovid-19 epidemic on Thursday. On Thursday, 12,032 people were confirmed to be infected with Kovid-19 in the country. Romania is the lowest spender on healthcare in the European Union. Here 5.2 percent of GDP is spent on health, while the average expenditure of the European Union is 10 percent. Two other hospitals have been set on fire within the past year in Romania, a European Union country with a population of 19 million, raising concerns about the country's outdated hospital infrastructure.