ROMANIA: Authorities in Romania say that several doctors are being criminally investigated because they are accused of taking hundreds of medical implants from dead people and putting them in living people.
A statement says that one of the five doctors who work at a hospital in the eastern city of Iaşi has been detained until the results of an investigation into claims of abuse of power and taking bribes.
According to the prosecution, the unnamed doctor was in charge of a network of four other medical professionals who gave him cardiac implants from deceased patients without getting permission from either them or their families first.
In the seven years starting in 2017, according to the prosecution, the doctor allegedly performed 238 surgeries, putting his patients at risk of fatal consequences or significant issues from implants that were either taken from dead patients or of unknown provenance.
“A large portion of the implants recommended by the doctor… were unnecessary and were prompted by fictitious diagnoses or previously prescribed medication that would trigger specific symptoms,” the statement said.
Romania has one of the least developed healthcare systems in the EU. This is because the country’s leaders have been divided, inefficient, and corrupt for a long time.
The state has built one hospital in the last three decades, spends the least on healthcare in the EU, and tens of thousands of doctors and nurses have emigrated.
Tens of thousands of doctors and nurses have left the country, and in the last three decades, the state has only built one hospital. It also spends the least on healthcare in the EU.
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