Bogdan Marinescu, gynecologist, former Minister of Health and former director of the Giulești Maternity Hospital, died at the age of 81. The announcement was made by the College of Doctors from the Municipality of Bucharest.
Marinescu held the position of Minister of Health between June 1990 and October 1991. Later, he also had a political career, being a deputy in the 1992–1996 legislature and a senator between 1996 and 2000.
Throughout his medical career, he was involved in the development of assisted reproduction procedures in Romania and led the Maternity “Prof. Dr. Panait Sârbu” (Giulești) in Bucharest.
The case of Adriana Iliescu
Bogdan Marinescu also became known internationally in 2005, after the case of Adriana Iliescu, who gave birth at the age of 66 following a fertility treatment. At the time, the international press reported extensively on the birth, then considered one of the latest in the world.
Marinescu was the doctor who coordinated the procedure and claimed that the patient’s state of health allowed the pregnancy to be carried to term.
File after the Giulești fire
His name was also associated with the fire that occurred in August 2010 at the Giulești Maternity Hospital, as a result of which six newborns died and five others were injured.
Shortly after the tragedy, the prosecutors announced the start of the criminal investigation against Bogdan Marinescu, who held the position of manager of the hospital, for negligence at work and failure to take legal measures regarding health and safety at work.
The investigators then claimed that the internal prevention and protection service had not been established within the medical unit, a structure that had duties including the identification of risks of an electrical nature.
