A scandal of the proportions and nature of the one at the “Saint Pantelimon” Hospital in the Capital, where two doctors are suspected of having killed several patients, could not remain without an echo among public opinion. The patients are now afraid to be hospitalized there, and some call and threaten the medical staff.
Patients refuse to be hospitalized at the Saint Pantelimon Hospital, out of fear. Archive photo
In particular, the doctors at the Emergency Reception Unit of the “Saint Pantelimon” Hospital in Bucharest face the hostility of patients. On the one hand, those who arrive at the UPU refuse hospitalization, citing that they saw the horrors that happened here on TV, and on the other hand, others call and threaten or curse the medical staff, reported Fiorela Mitoiu, a doctor in the UPU and the hospital’s spokesperson, for Digi24.
“They simply refuse admission. From the first he asks: “Will I need noradrenaline?” No matter what problem they came for, they say: “I don’t want to stay here, I saw what’s happening on TV””. she says.
“We also have confirmation from colleagues on the ambulance, both SABIF and SMURD, who tell us that patients refuse transport when they are told they are going to our hospital. They have become more suspicious than absolutely anything, we find ourselves being called in the ward and triage and threatened, cursed”, Fiorela Mitoiu also said.
Because of the two female doctors whom the prosecutors say have evidence that they may have contributed to the death of a 54-year-old patient, whose dose of noradrenaline was unjustifiably reduced, the anathema was extended to the entire hospital unit and the entire staff.
People should take into account, however, that during the investigation, information emerged that, while the accused doctors were reducing the doses of noradrenaline, several assistants were supplementing the drugs directly into the infusion, in order to save the patients. They gave statements to the Prosecutor’s Office and told about the cynicism of the two arrested doctors, who, in some cases, stayed by the patient’s bed to ensure that he went into cardiorespiratory arrest.
“The defendant, after making these changes, periodically came to check the patient’s condition, to see if he had died,” is the shocking testimony of a nurse, a witness in the case. Another statement signaled that “the defendant entered the nurse’s lounge, inspected all the patients, and the witness saw her load a 50 ml syringe with saline only, then she came to the patient’s bedside where the witness was and pushed the witness aside , he took out the syringe that still had noradrenaline in it and replaced it with the one that contained only saline.”
