The Minister of Health, after the visit to the hospitals affected by the water crisis: “We have not transferred any patients to Bucharest” / “We are still operating under a public health alert”
Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete. Photo: Inquam Photos / George Călin
The Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete, went on Wednesday to the five Prahov hospitals affected by the lack of water supply and declared in the evening that “at the moment the situation is, from the point of view of public health, managed within normal parameters”, reports Agerpres.
The official recalled that he had “ordered the suspension of admissions in the five hospitals and we will not lift this suspension until Monday, when the centralized drinking water network will be supplied.”
“I notice that, following the decision taken last night in the emergency meeting held with Mr. President at the County Council, the hospitals were supplied with bottled drinking water, both for patients and for the medical staff. Of course, the ISU and the local town halls have provided both household water and drinking water throughout this period. At the moment, the situation, from the data we have, is and seems under control”, declared Alexandru Rogobete.
No patient transferred to Bucharest
The Minister of Health specified that no patients were transferred from the five hospitals to the Capital.
“At the moment, we have not transferred any patient from the county to Bucharest, a patient who has worsened in these five health facilities that we are talking about. Of course, patients have been transferred from these health facilities to the Ploiești County Hospital and the situation is being monitored. I hope that by Monday things will be resolved and that we will reduce the pressure on the health system in the county, but also in Bucharest, because as you well know, the emergency hospitals in Bucharest are overburdened and full of patients”, added Rogobete.
He specified that until the state of public alert is lifted, controls will continue “and microbiological monitoring with the two samples per day in each health facility, so that we do not get out of control somehow a possible expansion of the risk of infection associated with medical activity”.
“We continue to operate under a public health alert and we will not raise this alert until we make sure that the centralized network is supplied with water, that the people, the citizens, not only from the hospital, the patients, but the 100,000 affected people will benefit from drinking water and, of course, the hospitals will return to normal operation,” the Minister of Health also declared.
Alexandru Rogobete, the president of the Prahova County Council and the head of the State Sanitary Inspection went on Wednesday to the five hospitals in the county that are facing a lack of water supply. The Ministry of Health stated that it is about Câmpina Municipal Hospital, Voila Psychiatry Hospital, Florești Pneumophthiziology Hospital, Băicoi City Hospital and Breaza Pneumology Hospital.
