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Minister Pintea says for first time Romania cannot treat seriously burnt patients in maximum safety
Sorina Pintea, the health minister, declared on Thursday, shortly after a young man from Piatra Neamt, seriously wounded in an explosion, who has 75% ofhis body with burns, was transferred to a hospital in Belgium because Romania cannot treat patients with burns more than 50% of body surface.
“Romania cannot treat the patient who has more than 50% of body surface with burns. He cannot be treated in conditions of maximum safety in Romania,”the minister said.
Romania, does not have, three years after the Collective fire, conditions to treat at least a single patient with large burns. The health minister declared recently, that there are 11 beds for serious cases patients with burns, but more physicians explained for HotNews.ro why the beds Sorina Pintea referred to - 6 at Floreasca Hospital and 5 at Burns Hospital in Bucharest are far from being safe for those patients. The lack of infrastructure allowing perfect isolation makes any renovation/equipping insufficient.
The only realistic solution for people with larger burns remains transfer to hospitals abroad. That is also one of the few things that changed after Collective: the attitude toward those patients. This year, minister Pintea approved rapidly transfer abroad for several very serious cases.