The management of the Central Military University Emergency Medical Hospital “Dr. Carol Davila” announces on Friday that the paramedic suspected of intentionally administering diazepam to several patients is no longer practicing medicine, News.ro reports.

• “Management of the Central Military University Hospital of Emergency Medical Aid “Dr. Carol Davila, along with the entire medical and administrative staff, regrets this incident and believes that reporting to criminal investigation authorities suspected deviations from standardized medical and therapeutic procedures that may have compromised the health and safety of our patients is a natural and normal gesture, and we hope that this act of courage will be multiplied in the Romanian medical society, perhaps in this way the medical world will no longer be a victim of speculation about ethics and professional deontology,” the Central Military Service leadership said in a statement. The hospital said in the prison

The unit recalls the previously sent information, according to which on Saturday, May 6, according to the notification of the duty brigade I of the clinical department of internal medicine about the suspicion of the possibility of administration without explicit medical prescriptions, some pharmaceutical products (medicines), some hospitalized patients, the management of SUUMK as urgently as possible , in accordance with legal procedures, informed the Military Prosecutor’s Office.

The hospital says there was never any doubt that patients’ lives were at risk and “none of the patients needed to be transferred”.

• “The threat to bodily integrity, health and life of patients was never discussed, as they were constantly under close medical supervision at the level of the department where they were hospitalized. Neither from the moment of the event until now, nor until this date, no patient needed to be transferred to another department due to the deterioration of their health, all of them in accordance with the examination and treatment protocols established by the treating doctors,” he sent to the medical department.

• According to the quoted press release, “no death has been reported as a result of this sad incident, and even more, a significant proportion of patients have been discharged after a complete examination, diagnosis and treatment protocol.”

• “No member of the medical team working in the ward had health problems related to the possible (accidental or intentional) administration of sleeping pills,” the medical department said.

The management of the Military Hospital started its own official investigation

• “In parallel with the investigation of the criminal proceedings, our unit has appointed an official administrative investigation into the analysis of the reasons and circumstances that led to the occurrence of such an incident. As soon as we have some decisions of the commission, they will be presented to the management of SUUMK, responsible for managing the quality and safety of the medical act. We are also waiting for the results of the investigations conducted by the competent criminal investigation bodies, and if necessary, they will be implemented in a labor or administrative manner,” the hospital added.

• Before all these investigations were completed, the unit’s management decided that the suspected assistant would no longer have medical activities under his authority.

• “SUUMK cooperates unconditionally with the criminal investigation bodies notified to it, our institution is directly interested in finding out the truth. In this context, we assure both the beneficiaries of the medical services offered by us and the employees that our unit continues to perform its activities with maximum parameters of efficiency and safety, without fainting and deficiencies,” the Central Military Hospital reported.

The Central Military Hospital said Wednesday it had notified the military prosecutor’s office after a paramedic allegedly administered a sedative to several patients without a prescription. One of the patients would end up in intensive care.

The investigation in this case was started by the military prosecutor’s office following a report from the hospital about the crime of attempted murder, the case is under investigation, the spokesman of the military prosecutor’s office in Bucharest also said.

A military hospital in Bucharest complained that a medical assistant allegedly administered diazepam “in large quantities” to three patients.

Libertatea wrote that the incident happened on Friday evening, when three patients were administered diazepam without being recorded in the observation sheet or recommended by the doctors. “It was intentional, not a mistake,” said multiple sources cited by the newspaper.