The situation generated by the flu epidemic is the subject of debate on Radio Romania Actualitătă, in the program “Problems la zi”, after Radiojournal at 13:00.
The Iasi Regional Institute of Oncology is in quarantine after a patient died from the flu last night.
Another 10 people with cancer are hospitalized in the same hospital, after the presence of the flu virus has also been confirmed in their case.
Four of the patients are in serious condition.
Doctors say that, most likely, the patients were infected by a visitor.
In addition, several hospitals in the country have limited visiting hours due to the increase in the number of flu and virus cases.
The Iasi Regional Institute of Oncology is in quarantine, after the presence of the influenza virus AH1N1 has been confirmed in the case of 11 cancer patients.
Patients were admitted to intensive care, five of them in serious condition. Doctors say the patients were infected with a mosquito.
The patient who died last night was suffering from leukemia and had also been affected by the flu. The woman was intubated and admitted to intensive care.
Under these conditions, the management of the medical unit has imposed quarantine in the hospital, as stated by the medical director of the institute, Gabriel Dimofte.
Gabriel Dimofte: “Members no longer have the right to enter the hospital even as visitors to the door of the ward because the risk is very high, it creates /…/ of people. More patients are tested with quick tests and they come we will have / … / the next few days. With the flu there are six in the ICU, one or two patients are already well and we hope to be out in a day or two. There are five more patients with / … / which are under control “.
Another flu patient died yesterday at Deva Hospital. This is a 62-year-old man from Hunedoara County.
10 people lost their lives to the flu this season.
The situation generated by the flu epidemic is the subject of debate on Radio Romania Actualitătă, in the program “Problems la zi”, after Radiojournal at 13:00.
