Romania’s health minister Victor Costache resigned on Thursday, prime minister Ludovic Orban announced in a press statement.
The resignation comes in the middle of the biggest medical crisis Romania has faced in recent history, caused by the new coronavirus pandemic.
Romania has reached 1,029 confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) cases by March 26 and 17 patients have lost their lives.
According to sources quoted by the local media, Orban himself asked Victor Costache to resign.
Health minister Victor Costache has been strongly criticized after he said on Wednesday evening, in an interview with the biggest TV station in Romania, that all of Bucharest’s population would be tested for Covid-19. This would require 2 to 4 million tests while Romania’s current test processing capacity is under 2,000 per day.
Moreover, many Romanian hospitals have been confronted with big problems as doctors and nurses have been infected with Covid-19 because of infected patients who haven’t been tested. The biggest problems are in Suceava, where the county hospital was closed for disinfection as more than 80 doctors and nurses have been infected.
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