The first reactions appear in the scandal at the Colentina hospital, where admissions are no longer made in six wards and compartments until the DSP issues a sanitary operating permit. In a press release, the Alliance of Chronic Patients from Romania asks Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu to urgently intervene and unblock the situation.
Admissions are no longer made in six wards of the Colentina Hospital. Source: archive
The Colentina Hospital is waiting for the operating sanitary authorization from the DSP for the departments of Neurosurgery, Orthopedics and Traumatology I, Orthopedics and Traumatology II, ENT, Hematology 1 (onco-hematology) and Plastic Surgery. As a result, 220 beds are abolished, claims the Alliance of Chronic Patients from Romania in a statement.
Alliance of Chronic Patients: “Thousands of patients remain without access to medical interventions, operations or treatments”
“Starting today, December 10, 2024, Ministry of Health, through the Bucharest Public Health Directorate, decided to abolish 220 continuous hospitalization beds at the Colentina Hospital in Bucharest. The Bucharest Public Health Directorate did not issue the Health Authorization to Operate for six departments and compartments of the Colentina Hospital: Neurosurgery, Orthopedics and Traumatology I, Orthopedics and Traumatology II, ENT, Hematology 1 (onco-hematology) and Plastic Surgery. This fact is all the more inexplicable as all these sections were renovated and modernized at the beginning of 2024″, it is stated in the communication sent.
As a result, 220 continuous hospitalization beds disappear, and thousands of patients remain without access to medical interventions, operations or treatments on which their health depends, claims the Alliance of Chronic Patients from Romania, which raises a big alarm: “this is the second serious situation of this kind in Bucharest, after Marius Nasta Hospital went through a similar situation, where recently renovated wards no longer received the Sanitary Authorization to Operate. It is an incomprehensible situation, which endangers the operation of large hospitals in the capital”.
The Ministry of Health, say the representatives of the association, has demonstrated a failure in managing this crisis, although the DSPs are under its direct coordination. “Unfortunately, those who pay the price of these dysfunctions are the patients, who put their health and sometimes their lives in danger. We ask the Prime Minister, Marcel Ciolacu, to intervene urgently to solve this critical situation, out of control by the Ministry of Health . Care for Romanians is not expressed through empty political statements, but through quick and concrete actions that respond to the real problems they face the patients chronic and acute from Romania”, it is also shown in the communication.
