Western Romania: Timișoara City Hall launches program to rehabilitate civil protection shelters

Timișoara City Hall, in western Romania, has launched a program for the rehabilitation and arrangement of public civil protection shelters. The measure is intended to increase the safety level of the population in emergencies.

The municipality has 89 civil shelters on record. These are mainly located in apartment buildings constructed during the communist period, with a total capacity of over 12,000 people. Of these, 48 are already registered in the land registry and included in the modernization program, according to G4Media.