Hungary offered assistance to Romania due to the hospital fire in Constanta
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó offered Hungary’s help to Romania because of the epidemic hospital in Constanta, where a fire destroyed it on Friday.
The head of Hungarian diplomacy on Saturday on the Facebook page he wrote, “trouble never goes alone. Unfortunately, the truth of the saying was now determined in Constanta, where a deadly fire broke out in an epidemic hospital.”
In Romania, more and more people are in need of hospital care for the coronavirus anyway, and that has come to light, he added.
Péter Szijjártó indicated that he had sent a letter to the Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu, possibly offering his condolences to Hungary.
There is a need for patient care, the capacities of the Hungarian health care system are there, so they can count on us – read in the entry.
A fire, which also claimed fatalities, devastated Friday in Romania at a constant epidemic hospital for coronavirus patients.
According to the Romanian interior minister, seven patients have died, five on the scene and two following their evacuation and removal.
According to the first reports, the intensive care unit of the hospital caught fire, where ventilators are operating.
An amateur video of the tragedy shows that part of the two-story building was covered in dense smoke, with patients fleeing from the ground-floor wards climbing out the windows.