15.10.2021

ROMANIAN DOCTORS ARE ASKING PEOPLE TO GET VACCINATED

Romanian doctors sent an open letter yesterday entitled "A Cry of Despair". They say the country's health system is overloaded, barely coping with record high levels of coronavirus infections and deaths, the Guardian reported.

The “College of physicians” in Bucharest, a non-governmental organization representing doctors in the Romanian capital, said in a letter to Romanians that the medical system had "reached the limit" and that low levels of vaccination revealed a "failure of trust" between doctors and the general public.

"We are desperate because we are losing hundreds of patients who die in Romanian hospitals every day," the letter said.

"We are desperate because, unfortunately, we have heard too many times: I can't breathe. I haven't been vaccinated."

On Tuesday, Romania reported nearly 17,000 cases of new infections and 442 deaths. According to health authorities, more than 90% of coronavirus patients who died last week were unvaccinated.

"Every day we witness tragedies: dying patients, suffering families, doctors who are at the end of their lives," the letter from Bucharest doctors said.

Pressure on hospitals prompted Romanian officials last week to suspend not urgent medical procedures for 30 days.