The kitchen where the food is prepared for patents of the National Clinical Hospital is in a precarious state. The food is prepared in a basement that hasn’t been repaired for over 15 years, while the corridors through which the food is taken to patients is full of mold and spiders. The cooks complain they do not have the necessary equipment and their salaries are very low, IPN reports.

“The carts by which we transport the food are very old. We go through a corridor that is full of mold and spiders and there is almost no light up to the elevator. We do not have the outfit needed to work, but cannot buy it with our small salaries,” said a woman cook.

The hospital’s new director Anatol Ciubotaru admitted that the cooks work in difficult conditions and measures should be taken in this regard. “The hall and surgery ward are in a good condition, but the kitchen and the elevators are in a deplorable satte. The four-five functional elevators are used both by employees that take food to patients and by sick people and visitors, which is not in accordance with the elementary hygiene and sanitary-epidemiological norms,” he stated.

The cooking facilities were last repaired superficially in 1999.