A North Atlantic Treaty Organisation military aircraft will take over 10 patients to hospitals in Britain, while Romanian Air Force will transport a few of the seriously injured to Norway, Finland and Hungary for further treatment, announced on Sunday the Defence Ministry. The plane then headed back to Bucharest as medics tried to resuscitate him for more than an hour. He died after he landed in Romania.
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A popular television editor and photographer died on November 9 after being severely burned during a nightclub fire in Bucharest, raising the death toll in the tragedy to 46.
Romania has started to send victims of the fire for treatment in clinics overseas, in Austria, Belgium, Israel and the Netherlands.
Police arrested three owners of the nightclub last week for suspected manslaughter due to poor safety procedures, with the Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta later resigning after 20,000 people took to the streets in protest over the events.
Maftei, 36, was also a blogger and well-known photographer and was covering the heavy metal concert at the Colectiv basement club when the fire erupted after a spark from a pyrotechnics show ignited foam decor.
As protests blaming the fire on official corruption continued on Sunday, the authorities said the coming days would be decisive for the remaining patients who are severely injured. The band’s two guitarists died last week from their injuries.
95 people are still being treated in various Bucharest-area hospitals following the fire. The impact of the incident was worsened because only one of two emergency exits at the overcrowded club venue was open at the time.
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Consultations over a new Romanian prime minister will resume next week after initial talks with political and civil society leaders yielded no candidate, President Klaus Iohannis said.
