Romania would have some of its severe coronavirus patients treated in Hungary. The negotiations on this matter began after Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, announced two weeks ago, following the hospital fire in Romania, that our country would provide support to its neighbor in trouble.
As Magyar Hírlap reported the other day, Romania asked for international help on Tuesday due to the explosive spread of the coronavirus epidemic. According to the government decision on this, medicine would also be needed, hospitals would need 12,700 boxes of Tocilizumab, which influences the immune system's responses, and oxygen dispensers.
At the moment, it is about seriously ill patients being brought to us from the border counties - but only by ambulance, because transporting them by plane is too dangerous for those involved. On Wednesday, the Arad County Emergency Hospital already indicated that it accepted the offer. So far, only Hungary has responded positively to the request for help.
The coronavirus epidemic is raging in Romania, as according to Wednesday's announcement, 331 people died of the infection on Tuesday, which is the highest in the one and a half year history of the pandemic. The death toll on Wednesday again approached three hundred.
It was yesterday's news that there are virtually no free intensive care beds left in the country, except for those reserved in hospitals for patients infected with the coronavirus in addition to their underlying illness. Currently, 1,513 intensive care beds are occupied. In the country of nineteen million people, 1.3 million patients have been registered so far, while the number of victims is slowly exceeding 39 thousand. The number of active infected people is 121,000, while the death rate per million patients is 2.021 percent.
Source: Magyar Hírlap
