The mother of a man who is in a coma accuses the administration of the Emergency Medicine Institute of refusing to transfer her son to another hospital. The relatives decided to take him to another hospital after doctors advised them to donate the man’s liver.

The man is a firefighter, but worked also as a taxicab driver at night. He was taken to the Emergency Medicine Institute as a result of a road accident in the morning of August 6.

In a news conference at IPN, the man’s mother Eudochia Orzu said her son was conscious when an ambulance transported him to the hospital. But the doctors examined him only when he lost consciousness, after they waited for over three hours in the halls of the medical institution. It was decided to operate him. After surgery the man didn’t regain consciousness and has been in a coma for 44 days.

The woman said the doctors told the family to better donate the man’s liver. Terrified, the man’s relatives asked to transfer the man to the Neurology and Neurosurgery Institute, but met with refusal. Moreover, Eudochia Orzu was threatened with legal proceedings if she makes this case public and she thus sought help from lawyers.

Fiodor Ghelici, who heads the public control commission of the Civil Society Council working under the President of Moldova, became involved in the examination of this case and now suspects that the Emergency Medicine Institute works as a center for selling human organs. The collected evidence was submitted to the National Anticorruption Center and the Ministry of the Interior with the request of opening an investigation.