Giulesti Maternity reopens today

Giulesti Maternity Hospital will officially reopen today after 'renovation' following the fire on 16th August, says Nine O'Clock... however, the Mayor of Bucharest, Sorin Oprescu said "only the Intensive Care Unit for premature newborns - which has been renovated - has received smoke detectors and video cameras. The other wards do not need such equipment, because they are located so that patients themselves keep them under constant surveillance." Oh, I see: so the ITU is the only unit with machines and oxygen tanks? That's a strange set-up for a hospital if you ask me... And honestly, is it the job of the patients to keep their eyes out for dodgy wiring, fire hazards and smoke? I think not since they are rather too busy being ill and worrying about how best to obtain their medication, bandages etc in a hospital that doesn't have either. He added, "we must forget the tragedy and make sure it won’t happen again." Mr Oprescu, if steps are not taken to ensure that every part of the hospital is equipped with fire alarms, smoke detectors and extinguishers, then I'm afraid to say that it will indeed happen again. Incidentally, fire extinguishers weren't actually mentioned. Are there any? Anywhere? In any of the 21 hospitals under the municipality's jurisdiction?

Nine O'Clock reports, 'According to the acting manager of the hospital, Dr. Victoria Nicolau, the Intensive Care Unit also received additional staff. “We’ll have two nurses on shift now,” she said, quoted by Realitatea.net.' That's still not enough, as she would see if she read the staff contracts. there should be at least four. Thus, nothing much has changed. The horrifying deaths of six babies and the severe injuring of five others hasn't made much of a difference in the eyes of this ex-doctor now politician nor the management who should know better than to issue such absurd statements to the press.

I was astounded to see that Bogdan Marinescu also threw in his grain of salt. No mention of the tragedy, no mention of consciousness as to his own part...in fact, his words don't show any kind of anything at all. It is as if nothing had happened. His words are spoken as if he is still the director of Giulesti even though the article names him as 'the former head'. This is the first peep we've heard out of him since the tragedy occurred and he doesn't even mention it: 'The former head of the Intensive Care Unit of Giulesti Maternity Hospital, Bogdan Mari­nescu, said the unit had already received an infra-red phototherapy device with six incubators, and more equipment is on its way. “The Intensive Care has eight units and, after we spoke to the mayor, it will receive six more units for the intensive care of babies who no longer need incubation, and of premature newborns,” the doctor explained. He added that the hospital had already received a donation of two incubators and the Bucharest Municipality will further provide whatever equipment will be needed. Marinescu assured that the Unit will be fully equipped when the hospital reopens. “I think we’ll be alright; perhaps we won’t admit (babies) from all over the country, as we were doing in the past, but we’ll do our best; as our colleagues from other maternity wards understood they must take care of some of our patients, I find it normal for us to do the same thing now,” Dr. Marinescu emphasised.' The very fact that he is still called 'doctor' makes me feel rather queazy...it is a label of respect, something that this man does not deserve by any stretches of the imagination.

Women will certainly be thinking twice before giving birth in Giulesti from now on. I would like to know how Marinescu's private clinic near the Soseaua is doing and when this man is likely to be placed under preventive arrest for his massive portion of guilt in the tragedy at Giulesti. He should not be allowed to practise until this is done. Had he publically announced, 'hey, everyone, my contract ended last year and I was standing in as a favour,' then maybe I could find it in my heart somewhere to be a little less acidic, but he has said nothing and meanwhile, Florentina Carstea remains behind bars. We all know what the situation is. The system is rotten to the core. No need to draw a diagram. For shame.

Video HERE from Antena 3

Comments

[Nicole]

Isn't Nicolau the acting manager? Why didn't she make the above statements?
Because Marinescu is too big of a shot to keep his mouth shot.. He still wants a peice of the action.

[Nicole]

I mean to read that Marinescu is still making statements to the press? Who asked him to say anything since, as far as I know, he was fired. But no, I am naive to think that he severed his connections with the hospital.. He is still in charge of the fertility clinic.. so, business is as usual.