The morgue in Romania’s main hospital has no space for the dead. Bodies of COVID-19 victims, wrapped in black plastic bags, line a hallway of the hospital in Bucharest. Experts have blamed the soaring deaths on the low vaccination rate.
Funeral house employees drag a coffin on a trolley as they arrive at the University Emergency Hospital morgue to take a COVID-19 victim for burial, in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. Hundreds of people have been dying daily for the past two months in Romania which has been among the hardest-hit in the current virus onslaught raging through Central and Eastern European nations where far fewer people have been inoculated than in Western Europe.
A country of 19 million people, Romania currently has among the highest death rates in Europe. Last month the World Health Organization sent a team to help with the nation’s pandemic response.“A village vanishes daily in Romania!” gasped Dr. Catalin Cirstoiu, the head of the Bucharest University Emergency Hospital.
On Monday, hospital staff in protective gear rushed through a sprawling ward to attend to the patients, many of whom were lying in their beds with oxygen masks tight on their faces. A woman sitting on her bed rested her head, wrapped in a pink traditional scarf, on her hand. Cirstoiu blames the low level of vaccination on general mistrust among the public and a lack of meaningful education and clear campaigns explaining the benefits. Cristoiu described the current virus surge as “the wave of the unvaccinated.”
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