After the tragedy from Iasi, Nicușor Dan indicates “a true danger to patients”, while the Minister of Health denounces “Administrative Chaos”
The “terrible tragedy” from the Children's Hospital in Iași, where several children have lost their lives, shows that “Nosocomial infections and outdated infrastructure represent a true danger to patients,” said President Nicușor Dan, in a message sent by the State Councilor Cătălina Galler at the “Gala” event.
“We urgently need new hospitals, major investments in the intensive care and firm protocols for prevention and control of infections. I encourage the promotion of excellence and I am convinced that, through our common efforts, we can contribute to the reconstruction of the medical care system in our country, modeling a healthier and more prosperous future.”
However, he wanted to emphasize that “Romanian medicine has many success stories, examples of professional and dedicated people, who deserve our appreciation, because their results generate higher standards in medical practice, with direct benefits for people.”
What the President Nicușor Dan, at the “Heart Gala” also sent:
- “I congratulate the Romanian Heart Foundation, the Romanian Cardiology Society and the Ministry of Health for the elaboration of the National Strategy for Combating Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular disease 2025 – 2030, an integral part of the National Health Strategy.
- The launch of this essential strategic document marks a major step in the reform of the Romanian health system, with the objective of reducing the mortality caused by these diseases, through measures aimed at increasing the precocious diagnosis, setting up community centers and modernizing hospitals.
- Your devotion and efforts, of all those who contribute to the modeling and progress of Romanian medicine, deserves the appreciation of the whole society, and your commitment to save lives is truly remarkable.
- Such events, as today's gala (Monday, September 29, no), highlight the importance of adopting, supporting and promoting prevention measures, as an essential stage in reducing the mortality caused by cardiovascular disease.“
The seventh child who was admitted to the intensive care section of the “Saint Maria” Children's Hospital in Iași and infected with the bacteria of the Marcescens Serratia, and who had been transferred to Bucharest, died on Monday morning, medical sources said on Monday. The child had been transferred to the “Grigore Alexandrescu” Hospital in Bucharest and had, meanwhile, neglected to the Bacteria Serratia Marcescens.
The 3 -month -old child was suffering from another serious illness – a cardiac malformation, medical sources said for HotNews.
The seventh child infected with a bacterium at the hospital in Iași died / The hospital manager was dismissed, but remains medical director
Other six children under one year old, who suffered from other associated diseases, died at the “Sânta Maria” Hospital in Iași, after being infected with the Bacteria Marcescens, a nosocomial infection.
Three more children are infected with the same bacterium.
Cătălina Ionescu, the interim manager of the Children's Hospital “Sfânta Maria” in Iași, which was based on 3 months, was resigned on Monday morning, following a meeting attended by the head of the Iași County Council, Costel Alexe, according to the newspaper of Iași. However, Cătălina Ionescu will remain medical director of the hospital.
The Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete, who dismissed the management of DSP Iași on Saturday, had also asked for the resignation of the hospital manager.
The new manager is Radu Constantin Luca, primary pediatric surgery.
The “Saint Maria” Children's Hospital is subordinated to the local authorities.
Rogobete: “For almost 10 days no one applied no protocol”
Minister Alexandru Rogobete said on Monday night that for many years he has not seen as much “chaos” and administrative irregularities as at the “Saint Maria” Hospital in Iași.
“I cannot speculate and say that this drama is directly caused by these infections associated with medical activity. They will be pronounced in forensic medicine. Unfortunately, these children had many other serious associated pathologies, other comorbidities. Drama, but we would certainly have avoided spreading infections to so many children, and these infections most likely accelerated this process that brought us to this drama in such a short time, ”the minister said in a B1 TV show.
“Bigger, procedural chaos, procedural that in this hospital I have not seen in this country. (…) For almost 10 days no one applied any protocol to reduce the extension of nosocomial infections in this hospital. I have no explanation …”, Rogobete said.
The Minister of Health insisted that not the medical staff in the ATI section was the problem, but the management of the hospital and the DSP, who “did not test the pathogen germs in time, did not notify in time the medical team that it was a outbreak there, that they did not create new medical circuits according to the protocol, which did not increase the concentrations for the 10 days, for 10 days, for 10 days.
“This is why I dismissed DSP leadership without talking to them. It's unacceptable what happened there,” Rogobete added.
