Hospitals in Romania are preparing for the eventuality of the outbreak of war, according to the head of the Department for Emergency Situations, Raed Arafat, who said that preparations are being made in all NATO countries for the eventuality that Russia would expand its ambitions beyond Ukraine.
Raed Arafat gives below details about what is happening in hospitals in Romania, and this in the conditions where investments are also needed for the hospital infrastructure to cope with possible emergency situations generated by a possible war, even if it is improbable that Russia will attack Romania.
"If the UPUs or if in the civil hospitals, in case of conflict, we will receive patients, it is normal. All of Europe, everyone sees this, that the military, if they are wounded, will end up in civilian hospitals at some point. No country has military hospitals with all specialties to cover the needs of the military. So any civilian hospital will eventually end up receiving possibly wounded, military or civilian.
There is still work to be done on the system, there is still work to be done on the capabilities side, there is still work to be done on the intensive care capabilities side, there is still work to be done on the surgical capabilities side. There is a lot of work to be done here as well. Know that work is being done, not only in Romania.
Work is being done everywhere to prepare the health systems of NATO member countries to deal with a possible conflict situation. Even though everyone says that this is very unlikely and that we should not panic, yes, it is, but being prepared is a must.
And last year, it's no secret that there was a meeting of the health convening group at NATO, which is a group that I've had the honor of coordinating for several years. It was discussed about the need for the systems to be more prepared, with a view to collective accidents, regardless of their cause, to receive a large number of injured, that they come from another country, that they come from the country, if they come because of a conflict or come because of a catastrophe, we must be prepared anyway.
So I can say that we still have, but we are growing, we are growing in stocks, in preparation, in sanitary materials. We recently took on a 96,5 million euro project to create a medical and detection and monitoring stock on the chemical, biological and radio-nuclear side."
