Public hospitals in Romania, which have been hit hard by a corona wave, are filling to the brim. Operations that are not considered acute are therefore put on hold.
The measure will apply for a month and health personnel will be relocated, the country’s assistant health minister Raed Arafat states.
The number of new daily corona cases in the country has multiplied in a short time, and on Monday there were only three vacancies in the country’s intensive care units.
The vaccination rate in Romania is the second lowest in the EU. Barely one in three inhabitants has received at least one dose of coronary vaccine. To date, 37,000 corona-infected people have died through the pandemic.
–The deputy head of the Romanian Intensive Care Association, Dorel Sandesc, describes the situation in the wards as “hell”, and he thinks we are just seeing the start.
– We are like a flooded Noah’s ark, with crowds desperately trying to cling to it, he says.
Before the weekend, seven people died in a fire at a hospital for infectious diseases in the city of Constanta in Romania. All the victims were admitted to the hospital’s intensive care unit. The hospital fire was the third in less than a year to claim human lives in Romania.
On average, Romania spends just over 5 percent of its gross domestic product on health care. This is the lowest proportion of all EU countries.
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