Beatrice Mahler, the former manager of the Marius Nasta hospital in Capital, was allegedly replaced from the management of the medical unit following the scandal in the fall, related to the lack of the sanitary authorization to operate that she should have received from DSP. It is about the scandal that Beatrice Mahler made public at the time.
Beatrice Mahler is a doctor in the Marius Nasta hospital. Source: archive
The scandal in which the Marius Nasta hospital was involved in October this year would have been the reason why the minister Alexandru Rafila did not extend the mandate of the manager Beatrice Mahler, say the rumors. She was replaced by Gheorghe Popescu, who will hold the position of interim manager for six months, according to an announcement by the Ministry of Health.
“The new interim manager of the Marius Nasta Institute is Mr. Gheorghe Popescu, an economist by profession, who also has legal studies. He has experience in the field of health management and meets the legal conditions for occupying the position”. the Ministry of Health sent.
Beatrice Mahler had been appointed interim manager of the Marius Nasta Institute in December 2017. From September 2018, she held the position of manager through competition. After the expiration of the mandate, she was again appointed interim manager, because the Ministry of Health no longer organized a manager competition. That is, until the other day. “This issue concerns the Marius Nasta Institute, and at this moment I am no longer the manager of this institute. Everything I did in relation to DSP was actions from the position of manager. I don’t have the mandate to speak. A comment of mine could be interpreted in the most negative way. I cannot make statements. If things go in a direction that is abnormal I will go public with a reaction. But right now I can’t. You have to leave me a little longer and see where things go. I don’t think there have been many hospital managers who have come out and said they don’t have clearance. I wanted it to be good for the patients. above personal interest must be the interest of the people”.
“They want to stage something for him, and that’s probably why he’s afraid to talk,” sources from the hospital told “Adevărul”.
Marius Nasta Hospital, critical situation since the summer
The activity of the Marius Nasta Institute in Bucharest, the largest hospital for pulmonary diseases in Romania, can be suspended at any time, because it does not have a health authorization to operate since autumn. It is a hospital that receives over 40,000 patients annually and that, in the absence of this approval, may be without funding from the Health Center at any time.
The situation was made public in October when Beatrice Mahler accused the DSP of screwing things up. “The hospital does not have a valid operating health authorization at this time. It has expired and is not being carried out, although I have submitted all the necessary documents in order to carry it out, including a request for assistance two and a half months before the time it expired”.
In response, the Public Health Directorate stated that it had issued the authorization, but because it had not notified anyone, the people at the hospital did not know that this authorization existed.
Until this moment, Minister Alexandru Rafila did not want to comment on the information.
The lack of operating authorization blocks admissions to the Colentina hospital
And the Clinic Colentina hospital is in a similar situation. The management of the medical unit announced that starting Tuesday, December 10, 2024, admissions will temporarily no longer be made in the departments of Neurosurgery, Hematology, Orthopedics, ENT, Plastic Surgery and reconstructive microsurgery. The reason? The hospital is awaiting the issuance of a new operating authorization from the Public Health Directorate of the Municipality of Bucharest (DSP-MB), which will also include the above-mentioned departments and compartments, according to a press release from the medical unit.
“The management of the hospital is in permanent contact with DSP-MB representatives, and there are all the prerequisites for obtaining the sanitary authorization for operation at the end of this week and the resumption of normal activity, including admissions, at the beginning of next week. We state that currently hospitalized patients will be treated by the medical staff with care and professionalism, as before, and will be discharged gradually, as the medical conditions for which they are treated will heal or improve. Scheduled patients who temporarily will not be able to benefit from hospitalization will be rescheduled as soon as possible, after obtaining the Sanitary Authorization to Operate”, it is also shown in the communique.
