​President of the College of Physicians, Professor Dr. Daniel Coriu, wonders about the investigation into re-used pacemakers, including from deceased people, at St. Spyridon Hospital in Iasi, “how is it possible” that this “happened” at the hospital for 5 years” and indicates that “it could not have been done by one person. That man did it not at home, in his garage. This means that it was a faulty system.” In an interview with HotNews.ro, Daniel Coriu also talks about the possible risks for the health of patients implanted with heart devices recycled from deceased people.

He also claims that, although there is also dryness in the medical profession, “50-60% of doctors in Romania are very honest” and because of the hatred of the medical profession, in the end, those who will have the most to lose are the patients who risk staying without doctors

Professor Dr. Daniel Coriu is a hematologist and director of the Center for Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation at the Fundeni Clinical Institute in Bucharest, he holds a MD and was elected President of the Romanian College of Physicians in October 2020. .

“How could this happen in a hospital for 5 years?”

Daniel Coriu states that he is stunned by the fact that this was possible for 5 years in a public hospital and speaks of a “broken system”: “From the investigation of the prosecutor’s office, I understand that these facts have been happening since 2017. the main question mark is how this could happen in the hospital for 5 years. How did the hospital allow this? Especially since they got settled. This could not be done by one person. This means the system has been hacked.”

Although the reuse of devices was officially banned in Romania in June 2021, the president of the College of Doctors says he is not aware of the practice being used before then: “They were banned in 2021, but it remains debatable whether they were allowed even if they were used earlier. Until 2021, I don’t know if they’ve been used.”

If they are to be reused, “there had to be some very clear rules, a scheme, a flow, some sterilization procedures, who does what. I said that maybe they are in the hospital, but we don’t know,” emphasizes Daniel Coriu.

Cardiac apparatus / Photo: Dreamstime.com/Pitchayanan Kongkaev

“The main culprit is the hospital. There should be clear procedures”

Daniel Koriu believes that the main culprit in this case is the St. Spyridon Hospital in Iasi, where there should have been clear procedures: “the hospital cannot leave this story behind, say that it has found and finished. From my point of view, the main culprit is the hospital. That man didn’t do it at home, in his garage. How is that possible?”

“Every hospital should have certain procedures. This should never have happened,” concluded the president of the College of Doctors.

What may be at risk for patients implanted with reusable devices

Today, many people wonder if there are health risks for patients who have been implanted with reusable cardiac devices.

In practice, the repeated use of these devices can cause the risk of transmission of some infections, explains the president of the College of Doctors: “It’s about sterilization. Even the best sterilization cannot remove biofilm. We have been investigating this case for several years. All these devices, all these devices that are in the human body, form a biofilm of microorganisms. And there is absolutely no method of sterilization in this regard. Especially since everything was uncertain here. We don’t know anything.”

“I’m not saying that there are no flaws in our profession, but 50-60% of doctors in Romania are very honest”

Daniel Coriu also talks about the “main danger” posed by the hatred of the medical guild, given that “I believe that 50-60% of doctors in Romania are very honest and I am fighting for them. Otherwise, I would have left this position (as the president of the College of Doctors – editor’s note) a long time ago.”

The big danger is that Romania will be left without doctors, he warns: “What is happening in this period, what some people in the media are doing to destroy trust in doctors, is completely wrong, and it will not be easily corrected.”

“All of us, especially patients, lose from this. Doctors will manage, they will practice defensive medicine, they will watch, they will select, many will migrate to the private sector. The doctors will find a way to escape. But what will patients do? Sick people who need help will not find doctors, you understand. Is this the danger that Romanian society really does not see? There is so much hatred towards the medical profession. And what I see on TV just gives me chills – all kinds of people are screaming . But do you have something to implement?”, asks the president of the College of Doctors.

hospital / Photo: Dreamstime.com/Tommaso79

Daniel Coriu’s solution: Let’s try to cultivate what is good about the medical profession: “I’m not saying that our profession doesn’t have flaws. We are a rather heterogeneous organization, we have 55 thousand doctors. It’s normal, like any guild, we have good and bad people. But one cannot generalize that from tomorrow everyone will stop trusting doctors. They don’t trust because they are healthy, but what will they do when they get sick? This is a danger, a great risk, from which I do not know how to get out.”

However, Daniel Coriu is adamant that in cases like the one in Iasi, he will never defend doctors who are the targets of prosecutors’ investigations, even if voices have been raised in the medical world in recent days. who wondered: “What does the Board of Doctors do?” and why he did not become a defender of doctors in such situations.

Doctor Dan Tesloyana was kept in custody for 30 days. Why is the prosecutor’s office charging him?

On Saturday, the Bucharest court ordered the preventive arrest for 30 days of cardiologist Dan Tesloyana from the St. Spyridon” from Yass, accused by the General Prosecutor’s Office of reusing pacemakers recovered from corpses.

Dan Tesloyanu was detained on Friday for 24 hours for committing the crimes of abuse of official position, in a continuous form (238 material documents), complicity in the continuation of the works after the order to stop them by the competent control bodies, according to the law, and receiving a bribe.

The researchers also argue that a significant proportion of the interventions for the introduction of implantable cardiac devices, including those removed from deceased patients, carried out/recommended by a doctor, would not have been necessary, having proceeded to their implementation either by registering fictitious diagnoses or by pre-recommendation of certain drugs , which cause character reactions leading to specific symptoms. Thus, patients who did not need these interventions would be given drugs to slow their heartbeats and doctors would convince them that they needed a pacemaker to live.

Also, in this dossier, five more doctors are brought to criminal liability for bribery, and four patients are investigated for bribery.

On Friday morning, according to the Romanian police, 24 searches were conducted in the counties of Brasov (3), Iasi (20) and Neamts (1), in the registered offices of some companies (3), in the homes of individuals. (9) suspects in this case or to buildings belonging to them (5). Searches were also carried out in the headquarters of the commune city council (Movileni, where a rest house was allegedly built) and in hospitals – the “Sfântul Spiridon” emergency hospital in Iasi, the cardiology department and the outpatient clinic, as well as in the military hospital in the village of Brasov

The Romanian police sent a press release that the investigation is directed against medical personnel who allegedly performed several surgical interventions “in violation of work procedures and indications for the use of cardiac medical devices (pacemakers and defibrillators) that affected or endangered the integrity of the body, health or the lives of some people, their patients.”

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• Why is it so difficult to get a cardiac device in Romania when you need it? Flaws in the system that made the Yassa case possible

• Doctor Dan Tesloyana, who is accused of reusing pacemakers taken from corpses, was taken into custody