A fire broke out last night at the hospital in Tivoli, a town on the outskirts of Rome. Four people died. The flames were put out, but the hospital had to be evacuated because it was full of smoke. At the time of the fire, the facility contained 134 patients, including seven children and several newborns, all of whom were transferred to other hospitals. The president of the Lazio Region, Francesco Rocca, goes to the San Giovanni Evangelista Hospital. “The terrible fire that broke out at Tivoli hospital is a terrible tragedy. I offer my sincere condolences and closeness to the families of the four elderly people who lost their lives”: this is how the Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci, began.
“I am in constant contact with President Rocca who assured me that all patients are safe and we are ready to provide the necessary support. I thank all the operators involved in the rescue activities, the doctors and nurses who are providing assistance and the health units that took measures to welcome the patients transferred from Tivoli. We hope that the investigations will clarify as quickly as possible the causes that led to the fire”, he continued. Meanwhile, the testimony of Paolo Gabrielli, a patient in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the San Giovanni Evangelista hospital, in Tivoli, who caught fire last night : “I was in the Department of Emergency Medicine when I smelled a strong smell of burning plastic. I went out and the smell was stronger. Then the power went out and we were completely in the dark. Of the 12 hospitalized, 2 of us were able to walk and we tried to help the others, but then they forced us to leave because it was dangerous,” he said.
Source: IL Tempo
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