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The orderly from the capital’s “Victor Babeş” Hospital, accused of accidentally dissociating a patient with COVID-19 hospitalized in ATI, was arrested in pre-trial detention, the Bucharest Court decided on Wednesday. The extubated patient died shortly after the orderly’s intervention.
The orderly Cristian Popescu was initially placed under house arrest on December 12, but prosecutors appealed the decision to the Bucharest Court, which on Wednesday ordered preventive detention for 26 days. The decision is final, informs Agerpres.
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The orderly was arrested last week by prosecutors and charged with wrongful death.
“On 12.10.2020, at 3.30 p.m., after one of the two patients in a room of the Intensive Care Unit was declared dead, several stretchers were requested to lift the body from the room and deposit it in the morgue, including the accused, as well as a nurse. The accused put on the protective suit, entered the room without waiting for the others and, confusing the two patients, exceeded his duties and removed the intubation tube from the living patient, who died shortly afterwards. , despite the resuscitation maneuvers applied by the doctors who had been alerted, “state prosecutors.
At the same time, the management of the “Victor Babeş” Hospital announced that it has initiated an administrative investigation, taking into account the verification of the way in which the current protocols were observed, the identification of possible disciplinary infractions and the establishment of a plan of measures to eliminate the possibility. repetition of such incidents.
According to the medical unit, on the afternoon of this Thursday, within the Intensive Care Unit, there was an “unfortunate incident”, which resulted in the death of a 65-year-old patient with COVID-19, hospitalized since 25 November. .
“There are strong indications that the death did not occur due to natural or medical causes, the coordinator of the on-call visit of the Hospital for Infectious and Tropical Diseases” Dr. Victor Babeş ‘notified the competent bodies, respectively the Public Prosecutor’s Office and Police, who immediately they initiated an investigation, and the exact circumstances of the incident are currently being investigated, ”said the cited source.
