The Ministry of Health announced in a press release that the checks carried out at the St. Pantelimon hospital in the capital have ended. What is the conclusion? There was alleged “harassment” between the director of medical care and a doctor at ATI, and allegations that 17 patients at ATI died under suspicious conditions are not true. As for the nurse who would have made the complaint, it seems that she doesn't even exist.
St. Pantelimon Hospital in Bucharest. Photo source: archive
“Complaints made by hospital employees are based on faulty communication between the management of the unit and the persons concerned. The complaints concerned interference in the control activity of the director of care and alleged acts of harassment exerted on a doctor from the ATI department“, the press release states.
In “translation”: the accusations cannot be proven, they cannot be verified and the whole story would be nothing but the climax of a robbery, a settlement of accounts between the director of care and an intensive care doctor.
“At the level of the hospital, an internal commission was established which carried out investigations from an administrative point of view following the notification drawn up by the director of medical care, as well as the information appearing in the mass media. On April 17, 2024, the final report of the internal analysis committee containing conclusions and recommendations was drawn up, without overlapping the criminal investigation carried out at the level of the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Bucharest Court“, it is written in the press release.
Then, without any connection with the 17 deaths, the representatives of the ministry, through the Control Body, explain the situation of an MRI machine and the testing of the vessel using volunteer patients.
“In relation to the information appearing in the media regarding the MRI machine in the radiology department, the checks carried out established that in December 2021 a Philips MRI machine was installed in the radiology laboratory of the hospital. In order to check the MRI antennas and to establish the examination protocols, in March 2022, the head doctor of the radiology laboratory informed the hospital management in writing and submitted to the unit's secretariat a protocol entitled “Voluntary protocol for testing the MRI antennas and establishing the protocols of examination”. The start of the testing activity was displayed on the hospital notice board. As can be seen from the content of the protocol mentioned above, the volunteers were not paid and did not pay for the examination. With the written consent of the volunteers, a total of 96 volunteers were used, and no official results were released in writing. We specify that within the premises of the St. Pantelimon Emergency Clinical Hospital Bucharest there is also a private MRI, where specialized examinations can be performed. At the same time, we note that since the start of the tests until now, no complaint has been filed at the hospital level by any of the volunteers who participated in the tests.“
