Issued to mark the centenary of the Floreasca Emergency Clinical Hospital, one of Bucharest's principal trauma centers and the facility that handled casualties from the 1977 Vrancea earthquake — Romania's deadliest seismic event of the twentieth century, which killed over 1,500 people in Bucharest alone. The hospital's emergency capacity was stretched beyond any designed limit that night in March.
Issued to mark the centenary of the Floreasca Emergency Clinical Hospital, one of Bucharest's principal trauma centers and the facility that handled casualties from the 1977 Vrancea earthquake — Romania's deadliest seismic event of the twentieth century, which killed over 1,500 people in Bucharest alone. The hospital's emergency capacity was stretched beyond any designed limit that night in March.