Large burn patient, Photo: Inquam Photos / Ovidiu Micsik
A patient who suffered serious burns is transported, on Friday, from Craiova to Belgium with a military aircraft. On its return, the aircraft will repatriate two Romanians with burns recovered in Belgian hospitals.
Raed Arafat, secretary of state in the Ministry of the Interior, announced on Thursday evening that Romania is sending a severely burned patient to Belgium for treatment, and for a second severely burned patient, the family did not agree to the transfer.
He explained that the patient sent to Belgium is from Olt county, and the two returning to the country are victims of an explosion in an apartment in Bacau county.
“A C-27 J Spartan aircraft of the Romanian Air Force, configured for medical missions, took off on Friday, January 2, from the 90th Air Transport Base in Otopeni, at the request of the Department for Emergency Situations, to carry out a humanitarian transport mission on the Otopeni – Craiova – Brussels (Belgium) route, of a burn patient,” the Ministry of Defense reported on Friday, quoted by News.ro.
Patients are monitored by a medical team during the flight.
Raed Arafat specified that such transfers take place frequently, given the limited capacity to treat this type of patients.
