Romania: Denial of medical care/health concern

Index Number: EUR 39/002/2004
Date Published: 20 February 2004
Categories: Europe And Central Asia, Romania

Seventeen patients at a psychiatric hospital in southern Romania have reportedly died of malnutrition and hypothermia since the start of this year, and the remaining 440 patients are in grave danger unless the Romanian government immediately provide the hospital with adequate food, heating fuel and medication