Anatol Ciubotaru, ex-director of the National Hospital, said he would give the authorities the grade “1” for the way in which they managed the COVID-19 pandemic. The doctor noted many of the measures were taken without vision and relevance, IPN reports.
“First of all, there is uncertainty, which is the big problem. The people weren’t informed property, if only about statistics. I think the press officer of the Ministry of Health worked the best. This only informed how many persons got infected daily. There was performed no broad analysis, no experience exchange with advanced foreign techniques,” Anatol Ciubotaru stated in the talk show “Shadow Cabinet” on Jurnal TV channel.
Anatol Ciubotaru noted the doctors were banned from speaking about the available supplies and types of drugs. They say that this is the protocol and they have everything. It’s not clear why the authorities in Moldova work like this as no one in the world works so.
“When they started to do more tests, the number of infections also grew. Now they thought they need to improve indicators: we should not do 2,000 or 3,000 tests, but only 1,000 tests. They did 1,000 tests and one third of them are positive. There is no relevance. We are like in an unmanageable boat that travels on water moved by waves.”
Anatol Ciubotaru was dismissed from the post of director of the National Hospital on March 24, after he covered the costs for the tests done at a private lab by four doctors who worked with patients with COVID-19 in the intensive care section. Then, Prime Minister Ion Chicu said the decision to make changes in the management of the hospital was taken with the aim of improving the institution’s capacities to cope with the epidemiological challenges. Anatol Ciubotaru was replaced by Andrei Uncuța.
Two weeks later, surgeon Anatol Ciubotaru started to work out a program for the prevention of infection among doctors at a COVID-19 hospital in Germany’s Hanover.
