Loading ...He said Romania now has a death rate below 0.1 percent, which is a good thing. ‘If things stand this way, then Romania should be ready to treat and possibly accept some 3,300 up to 6,000 possible deaths. What does it actually mean? It means we should be prepared to have intensive care units and mechanical ventilation to be able to assist these patients’, he explained.
Streinu-Cercel stressed the new flu virus has recorded progress, in the last period, in terms of the speed it is carried by from one person to another and added that the experts in infectious diseases very clearly know that the flu virus becomes more virulent and aggressive as it goes from one human to another. ‘Hence the risk of seeing possible deaths’, he stressed.
He said that the data collected so far shows that the patients develop the virus in a very short time, of some 72 hours and this may result in failure to make the transfer of gas in the lungs, in which case the patients suffocate.
Prof. Streinu-Cercel explained that in order to fight the disease, a World Bank programme was started as early as in 2006 meant to back intensive care therapies and intensive care modules in the regional centres of infectious diseases, with the procedure being completed at present. Such equipment could arrive in Romania in December, given that the Health Ministry will receive and answer from the World Bank later this week, he added.
‘Until then, we’ll have to use all the intensive care units located in the proximity of the hospitals of infectious diseases. This has already been organised’, he said. Streinu-Cercel resigned on Tuesday from state secretary at the Health Ministry. Later in the day, he was heard at the Parliament’s health commission. He had been named a state secretary on this Oct. 5. Until then, he had been a manager of the Matei Bals National Institute of Infectious Disease based in Bucharest.
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