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a psychiatric hospital in Poiana Mare (Romania), seventeen

patients have reportedly died of malnutrition and hypothermia

since the beginning of the year, and the remaining 440 patients

are in danger unless the Romanian government immediately provides

the hospital with adequate food, heating fuel and medication.

of the hospital have expressed concern about the lack of funds

to adequately care for the patients, who were hungry, poorly

clothed, infested with lice and had inadequate bedding. The

heating system does not appear to be used at the hospital,

a former army barracks, in a region where temperatures frequently

fall below freezing for days, sometimes weeks at a time between

an interview with the national daily newspaper Evenimentul

zilei, the mayor of the town Poiana Mare said that that

he had not seen so many deaths in such a short period of time

and that people were living in such miserable conditions that

would like to encourage our members to send appeals to arrive

as quickly as possible, in French, English, German, Romanian

expressing concern at the situation in the psychiatric hospital

urging the government to take urgent measures to prevent any

further deaths, including the provision of adequate food,

medication, heating fuel, bedding and appropriate clothes

urging the government to establish a comprehensive and independent

public inquiry into the situation at the Poiana Mare hospital

and other psychiatric hospitals, leading to concrete improvement

urging the prosecutor general to immediately order a post-mortem

investigation of the bodies of 17 patients held in Poiana

appeals have to be sent immediately! Please contact the MHE