A baby brought from the “Sfânta Maria” Hospital in Iasi – where six children died due to infection with the Marcescens Service in the ATI section – died at the “Grigore Alexandrescu” Hospital in the Capital, medical sources declaring that he was also infected with the same bacterium, according to News. ro. The manager of the “Saint Maria” Hospital in Iasi was dismissed.
Another baby has died. Photo shutterstock
Representatives of the “Grigore Alexandrescu” Hospital in Bucharest, they were pre -tailed for News.ro that the baby was brought from the “Sfânta Maria” Hospital, from Iasi.
The child died on Saturday.
The little boy was infected with the Marcescens Serracy, the same bacterium that led to the death of six other children admitted to the intensive care section of the health unit in Iasi, say medical sources.
The manager of the “Saint Maria” Hospital, dismissed
The manager of the “Sfânta Maria” Hospital in Iaşi was dismissed, according to an announcement made on Monday by the president of CJ Iași, Costel Alexe, after previously the Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete had requested this.
Costel Alexe said that the manager Cătălina Ionescu will return to the position of medical director of the Children’s Hospital and that the new manager will start on Tuesday, after the transmission of documents to the hospital and to the Board of Directors, according to news.ro.
“The proposal for the manager of the Children’s Hospital is the primary doctor Radu Constantin Luca, a doctor with experience within the hospital. He has been employed in this hospital.said the president of CJ Iasi
Costel Alexe has avoided making statements regarding the situation at the Children’s Hospital in Iasi, stating that he will provide several answers after completing the report of the Control Body of the Ministry of Health.
The president of CJ Iași was asked if the medical director and the head of the ATI section will be changed.
“Until the conclusions will not appear, I do not want to pronounce on the medical or administrative side”Alexe replied.
Regarding the initiation of an investigation by the County Council at the Children’s Hospital, Alexe said that the institution he runs only ensures the administrative management.
“At this moment I can say that we, at least, behavioral, did what was to be done”, said the hospital manager, according to Antena 3 CNN.
Asked if the Minister of Health’s request is justified to be resigned, Cătălina Ionescu replied: “It is the choice … and I respect it.”
The Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete, demanded the resignation of the hospital management, after, following a control carried out in Iași, he found the lack of documents attesting the application of the protocols to limit the infections associated with the medical act.
“Basically, between September 15 and September 24, you can not prove, because there is no report and no document confirming how and if the procedures for limiting the spread of nosocomial infections have been limited and applied. Also, my colleagues will remain here how much it is necessary to verify all the details and all the data, surely, administrative and medical, so that we can have a situation, so that we can the minister explained.
Also, the Minister of Health announced that he will dismiss “without any explanation and without discussion” the management of the Public Health Directorate (DSP) in Iasi, following the deaths of infected children with a bacterium at the Pediatric Hospital in the municipality.
The Iasi Public Health Directorate started an epidemiological investigation at the Children’s Hospital “Saint Mary” Looking at a possible outbreak of infections with a bacterium, after six children died in the Intensive Care section.
Alexandru Rafila: “The intervention must be done immediately”
Alexandru Rafila, former Minister of Health, told B1 TV on Monday that it was Speaking of a “non -functionality” of the hospital “Saint Mary” Hospital in Iasi.
“I do not think that whether or not the reporting was done, things were different. The intervention is essential. We should not wait for 3 or 7 cases to do something. After the first case, we discuss the intervention and reaction of the hospital, because DSP gives personal counseling immediately. The non -functionality of this hospital.“Said the former Minister of Health.
