Doctors of a national public hospital are accused of not removing a tumor in a two-year-old child in a surgery that lasted for six hours over a year ago. The case was made public through a social networking site, but the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection said the person who made this known refused to provide additional information that would enable to open an inquiry, IPN reports.
“Over a year ago, in November, the parents of a girl aged slightly over two found out that their daughter should be operated for a brain tumor that later turned out to be benignant. The surgery was performed in one of the public hospitals by a pediatric neurosurgeon. The operation lasted for six hours. After the operation, the doctor took the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance scan made before the surgery and showed to the parents the part of the tumor that he allegedly managed to remove. He said he tried to do more, but the type of tumor was very difficult and the risks were extremely big. No other scan was made after the surgery. The parents rewarded the doctor, the medical assistant and the anesthesiologist,” it is said in the posting.
According to the source, in several month a control NMR scan was made and this showed the tumor expanded. The parents returned to the same doctors who told them that the girl does not have chances of survival in Moldova and they should take her abroad for treatment. At the start of May, the child was operated at a private clinic in Bucharest. The doctor removed over 80% of the tumor in a three-hour operation for which the parents paid €7,000. After the surgery, the child started again to speak and to even use new words. When examining again the child in Bucharest in several months and then in several other months, the doctors established the tumor stopped growing.
“I don’t know why the doctor in Chisinau did what he did. I think he is aware he took money (he and his colleagues) for an operation during which he did nothing. Everyone actually took money, including the assistants.”
Contacted by IPN, press officer of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection Cristina Stratulat said the Ministry received no complaint about such a case, while the woman who published this case refused to provide other information that would help the Ministry to investigate the case.
Press officer of the Prosecutor General’s Office Maria Vieru also said they didn’t receive a complaint about this case.
