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| MEDIA HEADLINES 26/04/2010 |
| (2010-04-26) |
| Last updated: 2010-04-27 17:24 EET |
Recently, the first soloist of the Bucharest Operetta Theater Amelia Antoniu fell into a deep coma after getting an infection in the surgery room during a minor operation. This brought back into the spotlight the sorry state of Romanian hospitals. An identical case was reported on the same day in the same hospital, where a young woman got a virus from the hospital and had to operated for hysterectomy to stop the infection from spreading.
Under the title Health at Your Own Risk, the daily Gandul quotes the health ministry adviser, Molnar Geza, the head of the Romanian Epidemiology Society, who said that “100 Romanian hospitals would not pass the septic test”. “Just looking at the figures sends shivers down your spine”, writes the same publication, recalling what huge amounts of money Romanian hospitals should spend to rise up to European standards. However, underfinancing is so severe now, writes Gandul, that as much as 85% of budget allocations end up being spent on salaries alone. What's left is barely enough to cover overhead, including utilities, consumables and medication, so major investments are out of the question.
The daily paper Evenimentul Zilei notes that “in Romania, the real number of infections is hard to gauge, because doctors and hospital staff are afraid of getting fines, so they prefer to keep the numbers under wraps, even if it means putting patients’ lives in danger. The latest statistic dates back to the year 2008, with 10,000 hospital acquired infections. This figure should be put into context: in the US alone, over 1.7 million such infections kill 100,000 people a year. The situation in Europe is similar. The number of deaths caused by such infections is comparable to the number of deaths caused by road accidents. The daily paper Adevarul writes that in Romania “one out of ten infections get reported”.
Adevarul also draws attention to the fact that “the disastrous state of the Romanian health system has led to higher numbers of medical errors”. Adevarul also publishes an explanation provided by a psychologist on why more and more Romanians get treatment abroad. He argues that these problems existed before, but now they get more and more media attention. People have become better informed and have started to avoid Romanian hospitals”.
Under the headline Hospitals Dying alongside Their Patients, Jurnalul National, writes: “You can die at any time in a hospital. It probably happens anywhere in the world, but the percentages are different. Here, however, you really get the feeling that you can die before your time and no one knows who's to blame”. The paper concludes: “when stepping into a Romanian hospital, patients pray they get a good doctor, but they also pray that the hospital has disinfectant, cotton pads and medication”.
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