Romania will get three specialised burn centres by 2025, Health Minister Alexandru Rafila announced on the eighth anniversary of the deadliest fire in Romania’s history that killed 65 people, according to Euractiv.
In the absence of dedicated burn centres and the capability to properly treat severe burn patients in Romania, the country has relied on transferring major burn patients abroad for almost three years, after which the number of serious burn patients transferred abroad did not increase significantly, official data obtained by Hotnews.ro shows.
However, on Monday, Rafila announced that “these three burn centres will be ready by 2025″, noting that there will be 50-60 beds for patients with severe burns.
“No country possesses a sufficient number of such centres to manage large-scale catastrophes”, he added, although while some European countries seem to have no or few burn centres, Belgium has at least six and Germany at least eight.
In 2015, however, the Colectiv nightclub fire, which killed 65 people and injured 150 others, led to the resignation of the Ponta government and mass protests against the Romanian authorities.
As for the three specialised burn centres, construction work is well underway in Timișoara, and at the Grigore Alexandru Hospital in Bucharest.
Rafila hopes that construction in Târgu Mureş will kick off by the end of this year.