Tichilești (Tulcea)
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| Historical region : | Dobruja | ||||
| Circle : | Tulcea | ||||
| Municipality : | Isaccea | ||||
| Coordinates : | 45 ° 16 ' N , 28 ° 22' E | ||||
| Time zone : | EET ( UTC +2) | ||||
| Residents : | 27 (2002) | ||||
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| Telephone code : | (+40) 02 40 | ||||
| License plate : | TL | ||||
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| Community type : | Village | ||||
Tichileşti is a village in Tulcea County in the Dobruja region in the Danube Delta in Romania . The place belongs to the administrative area of the city of Isaccea . One of the last clinics for lepers in Europe is located here .
location
Tichileşti is located in the northwest of the Tulcea County between Galați and Tulcea .
Neighboring places
| Luncavița | Rachelu | Revărsarea |
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Isaccea |
| Greci | Nifon | Niculițel |
history
Tichileşti was initially a monastery that took care of lepers in a non-institutional setting. Officially founded in 1900, the leprosy was disbanded by the Bulgarians when they took over the Dobruja region . Lepers from all over Romania have lived here since 1929. In the beginning there were almost 200 inmates, in 1999 there were 27, in 2011 19. There is a church, a chapel and a kind of village square. A doctor and nurses look after the remaining sick. In cooperation with the district council in Tulcea, an old people's home was opened within the leprosy hospital.
Until 1989 the lepers were nonexistent in Romania's public life. The regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu reported year after year to the statisticians of the World Health Organization (WHO) the leprosy quota was zero. The illness of the poor, the malnourished, those who live in a confined space of polluted water, would not have fitted well with the propaganda of the socialist paradise in Ceausescu's empire. She was hushed up. Today Tichileşti is one of the last leprosoria in Europe.
See also
Web links
- Mihnea Petru Pârvu: The Last Leprosorium in Europe ( Memento from January 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the presseurop.eu news portal from September 12, 2011
- Walter Mayr: Only the bone remains . In: Der Spiegel 44/1999, November 1, 1999
- Andrei Schwartz: Stories from the Leprosy Valley , documentary on wuestefilm.de