Market explosion victims treated in Moldovan capital remain in stable condition

Chisinau, 11 January /MOLDPRES/-Patients who were hurt by an explosion in a café near the Central market and are treated in Chisinau, are in stable condition, the head of the Thermal Injury department of the Clinical Hospital of Traumatology and Orthopaedics , Octavian Cirimpei said.

Cirimpei noted that “the patients continue to be hospitalized. Two of them had been transferred into the intensive therapy unit. None of the patients is in critical state. Six of them will probably have to suffer surgeries, as they need skin transplant,” he added.

As for the three victims transferred to Romania for treatment on 10 January, the spokesperson for the Burn Surgery Hospital in Bucharest, Adrian Stanculea said “women are in a critical state. Almost 35-40% of their body surface was burnt. They had suffered deep burns, including burns of their respiratory tracts. Two of them are to be operated on 12 January. However, the other one is in a very critical state, as she had suffered extreme burns,” Stanculea added.

A number of 13 people were hurt during a blast in a café near the Central market in Chisinau on 9 January. Three women in critical state had been carried to Bucharest for treatment, while the other 10 victims are treated in Chisinau.

The owners of the café were arrested. Policemen say the blast was caused by a gas leak from a cylinder.

The prosecution of Chisinau municipality filed two criminal cases to this effect, on grounds of violating labour safety rules and seriously injuring employees by negligence or causing them to lose their working abilities.

(Reporter A. Plitoc, Editor M. Jantovan)