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MEDIA HEADLINES 26/01/2009
(2009-01-26)
Last updated: 2009-01-27 16:33 EET Print
These scandals appearing regularly in the keys areas of health and education shatter all remaining hopes that change is possible. One such case occurred last week, when a 62 year old man taken to the emergency hospital died on the halls of a hospital in Slatina, in the south, after being taken from one place to another and receiving no medical attention. The footage showing indifferent doctors and nurses made public after the death of the patient generated a strong response from both the authorities and civil society. The press also gave the case extensive coverage. The Hospital of Doom, the daily Gandul headlines an article writing that the Romanian medical system is starting to look like an extermination system. People who are supposed to attend to the suffering turn their back on them and leave their patients to die. Gandul found out that the doctor who refused to grant first aid was too busy bandaging the superficial injury of a county councillor, something which could be done by a nurse. The daily Romania Libera writes that the health minister Ion Bazac went to the hospital in question and demanded the sacking of the hospital’s executive director and manager and several doctors and nurses. The paper hails the response of the authorities as the only type of approach suited to the scope of the tragedy, the loss of human life. The Romanian Medical Chamber, however, did not agree with the actions taken by the minister. An article published by the daily Cotidianul headlined The Medical Chamber Strikes Back and Accuses the Health Minister of Using KGB-like Methods writes that the Romanian Medical Chamber accuses Balzac that his inquiries into the case were conducted at 2 in the morning and that spotlights were used during the interviews. The paper also carries a Medical Chamber release in which it threatens to report the case to international bodies investigating human rights abuses and to make its opinion known to all medical chambers in the European Union.

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