The prosecutor’s office in Sibiu filed a complaint on the testimony of an anonymous witness from the intensive care unit, who claims to be an accomplice
Romania Libera writes today about a shocking case in the city of Sibiu, where the prosecutor’s office filed a complaint after allegations by a former employee of the District Emergency Hospital, who said that patients with COVID-19 in the intensive care unit of the hospital were killed. The witness, who worked in the intensive care unit, claimed that he himself had killed people. The witness wished to remain anonymous.
The chief prosecutor at the Sibiu tribunal’s prosecutor’s office, Yon Veshtemyan, told Mediafax that a murder case had been opened at the Sibiu District Emergency Hospital.
“So far, we have filed an official complaint about the crime of murder. The investigation is being conducted against an unknown perpetrator,” Veshtemyan said.
The investigation was launched on the basis of what a former employee in the hospital’s intensive care unit told the local media, Turnu Sfatului. He claims that patients in a serious condition with COVID-19 were tied to their arms and legs, ignored by medical staff, given sedatives and thus patients died of suffocation.
“Yes, patients are being killed. I have also killed people because I worked there. Although I tried my best not to inject sedatives,” the Libera newspaper quoted the witness as saying.
Romanian newspapers report that two cases of the Brazilian variant of the coronavirus have been confirmed in the country. These are two men from Bucharest, and the source of the infection cannot be specified for one of them. The man is 38 years old, from Bucharest, has concomitant diseases, but has not traveled and has not had contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19. The other infected with the Brazilian variant is 57 years old from Bucharest, he also has concomitant diseases, but it is assumed that he was infected by a colleague. The National Institute of Public Health continues the epidemiological survey, the newspaper said.
Health authorities are considering tightening restrictions at the national level after the increase in cases of infection, and one of the measures may be to extend the quarantine at night, which will begin at 22.00 instead of 23.00, reports “Adevarul “. Prime Minister Florin Katsu has warned that things will get worse if Romanians do not follow health recommendations and rules, and experts warn that the development of the epidemic will be brutal, the newspaper writes. Adevarul points out that the intensive care units of the hospitals are full and quotes doctors, according to whom additional restrictive measures are necessary because the situation with the new cases is very difficult.
Prime Minister Florin Katsu said yesterday that he had asked the national vaccination coordinator and the health minister to speed up the third stage of immunization. This month, Romania expects to receive 2.6 million doses of the vaccine, which is more than originally expected, Adevarul writes.
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