Wednesday – National Day of Mourning

UPDATE 5: Romanians involved in the accident in Montenegro will most likely arrive in Bucharest soon, more complicated being the transportation of the deceased persons because it takes a number of legal procedures that may take longer, but the Foreign Minister Titus Corlăţean asked the Montenegrin authorities to simplify and expedite these procedures so that also today the plane with those deceased to arrive in Bucharest, according to Radio Romania news editor, Carmen Gavrila.
The spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Brânduşa Predescu announced that all deceased Romanians were identified and the Interior Ministry already began to officially announce every family.

UPDATE 4: Three columns each of six ambulances left the hospital in Podgorica to the airport. The first column carries patients who do not require intubation and will be transported on a stretcher up the aircraft intensive care.

The following six will also fly with the intensive care aircraft and the less seriously injured will go around noon with the second plane.
Dr. Raed Arafat personally coordinated the transshipment of each patient in central clinic wards of Podgorica until the installation of the plane, according to you Radio Romania envoy, Mario Balint.

UPDATE 3: All patients admitted to hospitals in Podgorica, after they were injured in the road accident in Montenegro, will be brought today in Romania, according to the Radio Romania envoy, Mario Balint.
The transport operations at the airport have already started after the Romanian and Podgorica doctors have completed their health assessment.

UPDATE 2: The government decided that tomorrow will be a national day of mourning in memory of those who lost their lives in the accident Sunday in Montenegro.
The national flag will be flown at half-mast and the radio and television stations will adapt their programs accordingly. The announcement was made by Prime Minister Victor Ponta.

UPDATE 1: Foreign Ministry informs that at Podgorica has been completed, based on the assessment of health of patients, the operation of allocating victims in four hospitals in Bucharest - Floreasca, Elias, Bagdasar Arseni and University, which are prepared to receive the wounded persons.

Following the details regarding the repatriation during this day, of Romanian citizens affected by the accident, MFA team from the Crisis cell that keeps in touch individually with Romanian citizens’ families who are accident survivors began to communicate definite information about the hospital where they will be allocated.

Foreign Ministry announces that this morning, the medical team and the Consulate sent by the Romanian authorities in Montenegro shall act in cooperation with local authorities for the repatriation of Romanian citizens in stages.

Evaluation of the health status of patients

Dr. Raed Arafat is at the hospital in Podgorica, where together with the local doctors makes a final assessment of the health status of patients to determine whether they can be transported during this day in Romania.

The accident victims are hospitalized to emergency hospitals in the capital, Floreasca, Elias, Bagdasar Arseni and Universit, which are prepared to receive the wounded persons.

The families of those involved in the accident will be informed regarding the location where the patients will be hospitalized as well as the time when the military aircraft will land.

Last night, with the support of Montenegro authorities, was identified one of the two people whose name was unknown.
This morning at 8:00, the two aircraft provided by MND took off from Podgorica, for bringing into the country all the victims of Sunday's crash in Montenegro.


Translated by Alexandra-Diana Mircea
MTTLC, Bucharest University