Mumps outbreak still a threat

Mumps continue attacking capital city residents. On Tuesday, January 15, Emergency Service doctors registered 39 persons infected with mumps, other 15 cases being registered on Monday, Info-Prim Neo informs with reference to the Emergency Service data. To date, mumps infected persons are taken care of at three hospitals – two hospitals of contagious diseases for grown-ups and one for children and in a special ward at the hospital no. 4. On Tuesday, January 15, a 40-year-old man lost his life as a result of various burns caused by the fire that destroyed his flat. Doctor-coordinator of the Emergency Service, Anatol Proca, said the fire happened in an apartment from Gheorghe Madan street. The owner, aged 38, fell asleep with the cigar burning. When firemen came, they found the man in an agony due to burns of the 1st-4th degree all over his body and intoxication with carbon monoxide. Although doctors tried to bring him to life, the efforts were useless. A 57-year-old woman was found in the afternoon on Armeneasca Street and was admitted to the Centre for Burns with general hypothermia and with 2-3 degree frostbites of the toes. A street person, about 40, and a man, about 50, were admitted to the Emergency Hospital, the first with general hypothermia and the other with alcoholic coma. A record number of babies were born in the last two days. According to Anatol Proca, the average number of babies born per day in the years with a high birth rate was 14, while yesterday 20 women and on Monday 18 other women were admitted to maternity wards. On January 16, 33 cases of injuries were registered with grownups and 18 with children and 7 cases of vascular accidents. The total number of calls registered by the Emergency Service amounted to 838.