Hospital departments

Minister of Health Ioana Mihaila declared on Thursday, regarding the situation in the intensive care units, that the problem is not only about the number of beds, but rather the teams of doctors and nurses "trained to properly treat patients in the ICU".

The ventilators of the mobile Intensive Care Unit located on the grounds of the 'Victor Babes' Bucharest Hospital stopped working due to the rise of the oxygen pressure above the allowed limit; a technical investigation is underway into the causes of the failure, the Department for Emergency Situations (DSU) announced on Monday evening, following the death of three Covid patients at the respect

After meeting the state secretaries of the Ministry of Health, the management of the Covid hospital in Batajnica informed that the situation is worse than ever.

"This is a turning point for the health system to survive. We are fighting and giving our best, but we are both physically and mentally exhausted," the media was told.

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"Our hospital is now working at its limits and the authorities need to think about more stringent measures to prevent hospitals from being overburdened. Perhaps we should already take care of younger children. Unfortunately, maybe even the kindergartens should be closed temporarily. The number of newly infected small patients continues to swell" CEO of Pirogov emergency hospital  Prof.

The Mobile Medical Intensive Care Unit, inaugurated in October 2020, was closed this week, "checked", disinfected and cleaned, and reopened on Friday, the Marius Nasta Institute manager Beatrice Mahler told Sunday evening private broadcaster Digi 24.

The Ministry of Health plans to expand the capacity of intensive care units expressly dedicated to the coronavirus in order to prepare for a further resurgence of patients.

668 patients were discharged from ICUs

651 patients were discharged from ICUs

The head of Intensive Care Unit at the northeastern Letcani mobile hospital, Florin Rosu told AGERPRES on Wednesday that another of the six COVID-19 patients transferred from the Piatra Neamt County Hospital died after the fire that took place in the ICU on the evening of November 14, thus taking the death toll to five in a week.