After a person in the middle of March reported online that the doctors of a national public hospital over a year ago operated a two-year-old child with tumor for about six hours, but didn’t remove the tumor, the commission of inquiry set up by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection to examine this case presented its conclusions, IPN reports
In a press release, the Ministry said the patient was admitted to the neurosurgery section of the Mother and Child Institute in November 2017 and surgery was performed to remove the tumor as planned. In the post-surgery period, the state of the patient showed positive dynamics. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan was made in several months to see the developments. The patient was examined by the team of doctors who operated her and the parents were proposed the second surgical treatment stage. But these refused hospitalization and went by themselves to a private clinic in Romania, where the operation was performed.
The commission members phoned the patient’s mother, but this refused to come to the meeting that involved the team of doctors who operated the child. The woman said she does not know about the message posted online and has no connection with this. The author of the posting refused to provide details. The medical authorities note that no recommendations for undergoing surgical treatment in Romania were made and the surgery could have been performed in Moldova.
On March 15, a person posted a message on a social networking site, saying that over a year ago, the parents of a girl aged slightly over two found out that their daughter should be operated for a brain tumor that later turned out to be benignant. The surgery was performed in one of the public hospitals. After the surgery, the parents rewarded the doctor, the medical assistant and the anesthesiologist. In several month a control MRI scan was made and this showed the tumor expanded. The parents returned to the same doctors who told them that the girl does not have chances of survival in Moldova and they should take her abroad for treatment. At the start of May, the child was operated at a private clinic in Bucharest. The doctor removed over 80% of the tumor in a three-hour operation for which the parents paid €7,000. After the surgery, the child started again to speak and to even use new words. When examining again the child in Bucharest in several months and then in several other months, the doctors established the tumor stopped growing.
