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Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said he had discussed with the health minister about increasing the treatment capacity of COVID patients in Bucharest by increasing the number of intensive care unit (ICU) places at the "Matei Bals" Institute, by starting the ICU at the Witting Hospital, as well as by transforming, once again, Colentina Hospital into COVID Hospital.
He said that in order to cover the ICU with medical staff, secondments could be made, after he was told that there were not enough staff at the Witting Hospital for the ICU.
He specified that the number of places at ICU is "almost double" compared to the number of people who are hospitalized in the intensive care units.
"Of course, the number of cases does not take into account the geographical distribution of the number of places at ICU, for this reason CNCI is prepared at any time when a hospital needs treatment in the intensive care unit and there is no space in the locality or in that county to transport the patient to an intensive care unit in another county, which has happened," Orban said.
