The parliamentary platform “For Moldova” asks the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection to furnish Parliament with comprehensive information about the state of the intensive care units of the national hospitals. The request was made after 12 persons died recently at the Matei Balș Hospital in Bucharest after a ward with patients with COVID-19 caught fire. In another fire in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia, three COVID-19 patients and a doctor on guard perished, IPN reports.
“We do not try to reproach the managers of hospitals in Moldova for something. We do not doubt the capacity, professionalism of the medical personnel. We just want to make sure that, together with the Ministry of Health and the local public authorities, we eliminate the smallest risk of occurrence of such tragedies,” MP Sergiu Sîrbu stated in a press briefing on February 5. According to him, the MPs of “For Moldova” want to know if the intensive care units have the necessary authorizations and how often the electrical installations are checked, etc.
“For Moldova” asks the responsible ministry to say if there are procedures for the manipulation of oxygen generator installations, if the medical personnel know to use them and obey these rules and how often they are trained to use oxygen concentrators and when the last trainings were held at each hospital.
The parliamentary platform “For Moldova” also wants to know if the hospitals have systems for monitoring the level of oxygen in wards and protection systems and how often the oxygen installations are tested in hospitals.