The family of a 30-year-old woman who died as a result of an in vitro fertilization procedure submitted a complaint to the Chisinau Prosecutor’s Office, asking to examine the circumstances and cause of the death.
In a news conference at IPN, the woman’s husband Ștefan Sârbuleț said the procedure was recommended to them by a doctor of “Terramed” Clinic, who told them that this is the only way by which they can conceive a child. After pre-operation treatment, surgery was performed on August 26 and the young woman suffered a cardiac arrest during this. Relatives demanded that she should be taken to “MedPark”, but the administration of “Terramed” decided to take her to the Emergency Medicine Institute, where a doctor was waiting to examine her.
The man said that before surgery, they were informed by the risks entailed by in vitro fertilization, but no one told them about the risk of death.
Veronica Cernogal, a relative of the Sârbuleț family, said that Cristina Sârbuleț seemed to be healthy, didn’t suffer from a chronic disease and all the tests done before surgery were good. The personnel of “Terramed” had a blamable attitude after this case. They treated the family with arrogance and didn’t even express compassion or condolences to them.
Doctors from outside the institution, who were consulted by the family, consider the 30-year-old woman died because of the administered anesthetics.
The young woman’s mother Angela Țoncu noted the doctor who examined her daughter after surgery works in parallel at “Terramed” and this is the reason why she was taken to the Emergency Medicine Institute, not to “MedPark”, as the family requested.
When the results of the medical-legal examination become available, the family will ask for a medical-legal examination outside Moldova, said the family’s lawyer Sorina Arnăuț. She called on the Ministry of Health to also investigate this case.
The complaint filed to the Prosecutor’s Office says the medical institution didn’t issue sales slips to them for the services they paid: €3,000 for the surgery and 500 lei for each visit paid by the woman to the hospital.
