Death Toll Among Babies Rises To Four, Seven Others In Critical Condition

One of the eight newborn babies severely injured in the explosion at the Giulesti maternity hospital in Bucharest died Tuesday morning, at the Grigore Alexandrescu children hospital, taking the death toll among babies to four, Health Ministry undersecretary Raed Arafat said Tuesday.

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"It is one of the babies in critical condition. Unfortunately, the death toll among babies rises to four," said Arafat, also chief of the emergency services.

Three newborn babies were killed Monday evening and eight others were severely burnt in the intensive care unit of the Giulesti hospital, in an explosion apparently caused by a glitch in the hospital's air-conditioning system.

Arafat said Monday evening that rescuers discovered the injured babies in the intensive care department, adding they had been sent to the Grigore Alexandrescu hospital, while their mothers were admitted to other medical units.

Dan George Enescu, head of the Grigore Alexandrescu hospital, described the babies' condition as "extremely critical" and said prematurely born babies have burns covering 70-80%t of their bodies, which, he stressed, it is too much for them.

Prosecutors set off an investigation to establish what caused the exposition and whether it is a negligence case.

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