Leova girl could have been saved if a helicopter was available

The five-year-old girl from Leova, who had been in a coma for five days, could have been saved if she had been taken by a helicopter to Chisinau, where there is modern equipment for examination and treatment. Mariana Semeniuc, vice director of the Leova hospital, has told Info-Prim Neo that the girl had very serious traumas and could not be transported by a reanimobile as the roads are in a bad state and any move could have worsened her state. “We blame no one. A decision to transport the patient is taken when the state of health allows it. If there were helicopters, things would be easier and we would have much more time,” she stated. Children’s ombudswoman Tamara Plamadeala considers that the doctors were indifferent in this case. If it had been a child from a wealthy family, they would have made every effort to save her, she stated for Info-Prim Neo. Tamara Plamadeala believes that the local authorities are also to blame in this case. The social assistant should have taken measures if they knew that there was a person who drinks and is aggressive in that house. She said that state policies should be worked out to provide penalties for indifference, both for doctors and to social workers. The girl, who was beaten cruelly by her father, was taken to the hospital in the evening of January 26, after lying on the floor for five hours. The girl’s mother said she wasn’t in the house when it happened and when the doctors came, called by the girl’s brother, the man didn’t want to allow them to take her to the hospital. When she arrived at the hospital, the girl had a temperature of under 35 degrees Celsius. She weighed only 15 kg. She had older signs of beating on the body. In the morning of January 27, the girl went into a coma. Doctors of “Aviasan” service examined her and said it was too dangerous to transport her to Chisinau. The child was on life support. She died from cardiac arrest on February 1.