The administration of the Ministry of Health on October 27 carried out an unplanned inspection at the Mother and Child Institute after pictures of the conditions in which the child patients stay there were disseminated on social networking sites. According to Minister Ruxanda Glavan, each two days callers inform through the hot line that the mothers staying at this hospital with their children are forced to purchase food products and medicines themselves, IPN reports.

“It is an unplanned inspection following media reports about the sanitary-epidemiological conditions at this hospital. During the three months of my appointment, I daily examine the complaints submitted through the Ministry’s hot line. Regretfully, complaints about the activity of this hospital are made every two days,” stated Ruxanda Glavan.

She noted that specialists of the National Health Insurance Company and of the National Public Health Center were also involved in this inspection. These verify the hospitalization conditions and the economic planning, namely how purchases are made and how the public funds and humanitarian aid are managed.

The hospital’s director Stefan Gatcan said the conditions in the hospital date from 1984 and all the faucets and other things cannot be replaced overnight. “We cannot carry out additional repair works now. We have money only for the basic necessities of patients,” he stated, adding that they asked for more funds, but didn’t get some.

In a communique of the Mother and Child Institute, it is said that all the documents asked by the inspection commission were presented. Over the last few years, the hospital didn’t benefit from direct financing for renovation from the Ministry of Health, which is the founding entity. The modernization and equipment projects implemented during the last four years were possible with funds attracted from international and national partners. More details about the projects will be provided in a news conference at the hospital on November 2, at 11am.