Tichilești, Tulcea

Tichilesti is a village in the county of Tulcea in the Dobrogea region in the Danube Delta in Romania. The place belongs to the administrative area of ​​the city Isaccea. Here is the last hospital for lepers in Europe.

Location

Tichilesti is in the northwest of the circle between Galaţi and Tulcea Tulcea.

Neighboring towns

History

Tichilesti was originally a monastery, which took care of in a non- institutional framework to lepers. The leprosarium, officially created in 1900 and disbanded by the Bulgarians, when they took over the Dobrogea region. Since 1929, here lepers live from all over Romania. Nearly 200 inmates were initially. Today, there are still 27 There is a church, a chapel and a kind of town square. A doctor and nurses take care of the remaining patients. In cooperation with the county council in Tulcea a nursing home was opened within the leprosy hospital.

Until 1989, the lepers were non-existent in the public life of Romania. The regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu reported every year to the statisticians of the World Health Organization ( WHO), the leprosy rate is zero. The disease of the poor, the malnourished, the confined space of polluted water survivors would have badly fitted to the propaganda of the socialist paradise in the realm of Ceausescu. It was hushed up. Today Tichilesti is the last leper colony in Europe.