Another patient admitted to fire-ravaged ward at Matei Bals hospital dies

Another patient who had been admitted to the Matei Bals hospital in a ward ravaged by fire on Friday has died, the Ministry of Health (MS) informed on Tuesday. "The Ministry of Health has been informed of a death among patients who were in ward V of the Matei Bals National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Bucharest during the fire of January 29 this year. It is about an 80-year-old patient, transferred after a fire to the University Emergency Hospital in Bucharest," reads a Health Ministry release. The patient had been diagnosed with a severe form of COVID-19, had multiple comorbidities and was hospitaliaed in the intensive care unit of the medical facility, intubated, said the Ministry of Health. A forensic investigation will determine the causes of death, according to the ministry. AGERPRES (RO - author: Iulia Carciog, editor: Mihai Simionescu; EN - author: Corneliu-Aurelian Colceriu, editor: Adina Panaitescu)