Seven people died in the fire at the Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital Constanta, Interior Minister Lucian Bode announced on Friday.Earlier, authorities had announced that 9 people had died in the fire in southeastern Constanta.Lucian Bode also said that the firefighters intervened in 8 minutes at the fire at the Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital Constanta, and in less than an hour the fire was extinguished."There were 10 patients in the ICU in the hospital. The investigators are currently checking whether or not the hospital had the obligation to have a fire safety permit. (...) The investigation was taken over by the Prosecutor's Office with the Constanta Court," Bode said. He specified that the Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (ISU) teams that carried out controls, last year and this year, at the Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital Constanta, where a fire resulting in seven casualties took place on Friday, found a number of malfunctions and deficiencies, as a result of which penalties were applied."We had a control carried out at the Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital Constanta in November last year, respectively a control carried out in February of this year. A series of malfunctions and irregularities were found, sanctions were applied, but Secretary of State Raed Arafat will speak to you about all these malfunctions, deficiencies and compliance terms at the site. He is the one coordinating the investigation on behalf of IGSU [General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations].He also specified that specialists from the National Institute of Forensics, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations went at the scene of the fire, and the investigation was taken over by the Prosecutor's Office with the Constanta Court."As these structures reach certain conclusions, they will be made public," Bode added.
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