Socola hospital fire
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| Date | 25 December 2020 |
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| Time | ~03:05 |
| Duration | Around 1 hour |
| Venue | Socola Psychiatric Clinic Hospital |
| Location | Socola, Iași, Romania |
| Coordinates | 47°7′42.33″N 27°36′49.892″E / 47.1284250°N 27.61385889°ECoordinates: 47°7′42.33″N 27°36′49.892″E / 47.1284250°N 27.61385889°E ⧼validator-fatal-error⧽ |
| Type | Fire |
| Cause | Smoking (possibly) |
| Deaths | 1 |
| Non-fatal injuries | 0 |
On 25 December 2020, at around 03:05 EET on Christmas night, it was reported that a fire had started in the Socola Psychiatric Clinic Hospital at the Socola quarter of Iași, Romania. Once the fire was announced, two fire engines with firefighters and an intensive care unit with a doctor came to the scene, managing to extinguish the fire at 04:00. A total of 18 patients[1][2] were evacuated from the hospital within 15 minutes,[3] including a 33-year-old man that was found semiconscious, with burns and signs of smoke inhalation. An attempt was made to resuscitate him, but he was pronounced dead at 06:00.[1][2]
Bogdan Șaramet, director of the Socola Psychiatric Clinic Hospital, explained that this was the first time the victim had been hospitalized there and that the victim did not have a medical history, but that he had been brought in after "an acute episode". The pavilion in which he was located was the 1B, the largest in the hospital, which had been transformed at the beginning of 2020 into a "hall" for patients who underwent RT-PCR tests to see if they were infected by COVID-19 or not. The fire is believed to have started because a patient started smoking, although it is not known how cigarettes got into the building.[3][4]
It was the second in a series of three major fires that occurred in hospitals in Romania. The first of them was the Piatra Neamț hospital fire on 14 November 2020 and the third was the Matei Balș hospital fire on 29 January 2021.[5][6] In early January, two more hospital fires occurred in the country, one on 2 January in Roman and another on 5 January in Galați. However, there were no deaths in either of them.[6]
See also[edit]
- COVID-19 pandemic in Romania
- List of building or structure fires
- Piatra Neamț hospital fire
- Matei Balș hospital fire
- Constanța hospital fire
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "FOTO. Pacient mort intr-un incendiu la Spitalul "Socola" din Iași! Tragedia s-a petrecut pe sectia unui medic declarat incompatibil de ANI". AgoraPress (in română). 25 December 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Costiță, Georgel (25 December 2020). "Incendiu la Spitalul de Psihiatrie Socola Iași, în noaptea de Crăciun. Un pacient de 33 de ani a murit". Digi24 (in română).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "(FOTO) Un tânăr a murit într-un incendiu care a cuprins Spitalul Socola". Ziarul de Iași (in română). 25 December 2020.
- ↑ "Incendiu la Spitalul de Psihiatrie Socola Iași. Un pacient a decedat". Radio Europa Liberă România (in română). 25 December 2020.
- ↑ Spiru, Cornel (1 February 2021). "EL PAIS: Un nou incendiu crește la 21 numărul de morți din cauza incendiilor din spitalele românești, în mai puțin de trei luni". RADOR (in română).
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Alecu, Carmen (29 January 2021). "De ce iau foc spitalele din România? Sistemul medical românesc sub Zodia Focului. O listă a incendiilor produse în spitalele din România, în ultimii 10 ani". Doctorul Zilei (in română).
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