The Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete, announced on Wednesday, December 3, that five hospitals in Bucharest will take on patients in the event of aggravation of the water crisis in Prahova County.
The minister told Digi24 that “the situation is currently in the form of a public health alert”.
He also stated that the affected hospitals were supplied with water from the Emergency Situations Inspectorate.
“We decided to supplement with drinking water from the state reserve and we are monitoring the situation. We stopped the hospitalization because the medical act cannot be performed without running water”, he added.
In a press conference, the minister specified that 378 patients are hospitalized in five hospitals in Prahova county, served by 1,260 employees, and the manager of the Ploiești County Hospital also participated in the discussions.
“We are talking here about the Municipal Hospital in Câmpina, the Voila Psychiatric Hospital, the Pneumophthizology Hospital in Floreşti, the Băicoi City Hospital and the Breaza Pneumology Hospital. The manager of the health unit in Ploieşti, namely the County Hospital in Ploieşti, also participated in the discussion.
At the moment, 378 patients are hospitalized in these five health facilities, and the staff serving the aforementioned health facilities is 1,260“, said Minister Rogobete, in a press conference.
That’s why, to prevent a medical crisis, the Ministry of Health blocked 10 beds (5 surgical and 5 non-surgical) in each of the five large emergency hospitals in Bucharest: University Hospital, Bagdasar-Arseni, Floreasca, Elias and Children’s Emergency Hospital until Monday, inclusive.
“I kept in constant contact with the Prahova Public Health Directorate and asked them to do their job to the end, that is, until the water has a microbiological control, i.e. it does not comply with the compliant physico-chemical indicators in order to be introduced into the centralized network, not to lift the DSP restriction”said Minister Rogobete.
According to him, such a rebate is “excluded” because it would lead to an unprecedented public health incident.
“It is excluded to make such a discount and introduce water contaminated with anything into a centralized system until you have a microbiological control and until you make sure that said water does not affect the population. (…)
It would have been an unprecedented public health and epidemiological incident if this had happened.”added Minister Alexandru Rogobete.
