The Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete, states, following the control made at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Iasi, where six children died after being infected with a bacterium, that “a larger administrative and procedural chaos has not seen in a hospital”.
Minister Alexandru Rogobete led the investigation from the Children’s Hospital in Iași: Facebook
The Minister of Health rejects the idea that the underfunding would have been the cause of the infections associated with the nurse at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Iasi, where six children died infected with a bacterium.
Following the visit made on Saturday at the medical unit, Alexandru Rogobete confessed that he has not seen such a “chaos” for a long time regarding the way the hospital is administered and the procedures are applied, according to News.
“I tell you honestly that a bigger administrative and procedural chaos I have not seen in a hospital for a long time and I visited many hospitals and we have faced, lately, but also when he was a secretary of state, of many such situations.”said Alexandru Rogobete on Sunday, at Antena 3.
He admits that the hospital in Iasi is one with many facilities and which “looks great”.
“I visited the ATI section, I saw there with my eyes the latest equipment that I did not see in many hospitals, for example. I checked the consumable stocks, the stocks of disinfect the antibiotic stocks and I did not identify problems in this regard. To take certain measures, but these measures were, from my point of view, insufficient and inefficient. This time we are not talking about an underfilled hospital, We do not talk about a hospital whose infrastructure is missing, we discuss the non -application of the procedures, about the non -application of the legislation, in the end, which exists in this situation ”added Alexandru Rogobete.
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.
The director of the Children’s Hospital “Saint Mary” From Iasi, Cătălina Ionescu, said that the identified germs are sensitive to antibiotics, stating that it has been decided to limit the hospitalizations to ATI since 16 September.
“My team has taken over 40 new microbiological samples, from all over the ATI section”
The Minister of Health announces that the specialists of the Ministry present of the Saint Mary Hospital in Iaşi have taken dozens of samples in the Anesthesia-Intensive-Trapie-Intensive Section, to verify that the analyzes performed by the Public Health Directorate Iasi on the high tests in the section where several children were infected with a bacterium.
“Today, my inspectors, my team, which will remain in Iasi as long as needed, has taken over 40 new microbiological tests, from all over the intensive care section, surfaces, aeromicroflora and so on to check if the results that DSP Iasi has achieved in the past are valid or not.”the Minister of Health announced at Antena 3 on Sunday.
Alexandru Rogobete explained, on the television station, that the measure of restoration of the analyzes was arranged in the context on Saturday requested data on infections in the ATI section of the hospital, and the data presented show that no patient in the section is infected.
