Police in Dambovitsa county are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of an 88-year-old woman who was hospitalized in a shelter in the town of Mereni, News.ro reports. The investigation was opened after doctors from the Tirgovishte County Emergency Hospital announced that the woman was brought to the hospital with a body temperature of only 28 degrees Celsius, and died a few hours after admission. The facility where the woman was hospitalized is under the management of Koncesti City Hall, and the local administration has received over 3 million lei in funding, mostly European and state funds, to expand and modernize the facility.

Police in Dambovitsa County launched an investigation after an 88-year-old woman, a resident of a shelter in Koncesti commune, Mereni village, arrived at the hospital late last week with severe hypothermia and died a few hours after admission.

“On December 9 of this year, Tirgovishte municipal police officers were informed by a representative of Tirgovishte district hospital that the patient died around 03:41. According to the first checks, it can be seen that on December 8 this year at around 16:57, an 88-year-old woman, a beneficiary of the center for the elderly, was taken to the hospital from the city of Mereni. underwent medical treatment on suspicion of hypothermia and other diseases,” the Dambovitsa District Police Inspectorate informed News.ro.

Representatives of the police inspectorate of the city of Dambovitsa specify that a mixed team consists of police officers of the city of Rakari, the Criminal Investigation Service, the Economic Crime Investigation Service, representatives of the Department of Sanitation, Veterinary and Food Safety and the District Agency of the Payment and Social Inspection carried out checks on compliance with legal conditions by the center for elderly people.

“All parties and circumstances of the event are established within the framework of the criminal proceedings registered in the case on the facts of committing the crimes of involuntary manslaughter and official negligence. The investigation is being conducted by the police under the coordination of the prosecutor from the prosecutor’s office at the Rakar court,” the police representatives added.

• UPDATE: The head of the Tirgovishte Regional Emergency Hospital, Claudio Dumitrescu, said Friday night that the speculation by some at the center that his temperature dropped in the ambulance is the realm of science fiction.

The head of the hospital explained to News.ro that the 88-year-old patient was brought by an ambulance and her state of consciousness was altered. In the hours following her arrival at the hospital, the woman had her first cardio-respiratory arrest, which was resuscitated, and then had another cardio-vascular arrest, which could not be revived despite the efforts of EMS.

Claudio Dumitrescu, the former head of the ambulance service in Dambovitsa, commented on the statements of some representatives of the social center where the woman was hospitalized, that the body temperature of the old woman fell below 30 degrees Celsius in the ambulance, and not in the center where she was hospitalized .

“The woman was hospitalized in that center. It was brought from there, we don’t even understand how it was brought to such a temperature. The explanation or assumption by some representatives of the center that he had a fever in the ambulance belongs to the realm of science fiction and does not correlate with reality. And if the ambulance hadn’t been heated, there was something wrong, it wouldn’t have been able to lower the temperature to 28 degrees in half an hour as the ambulance from Titu (from the area where the patient was taken – no) was driving. ) to bargain. All ambulances are heated and ensure optimal patient transport,” said Claudio Dumitrescu.

More than 3 million lei were allocated for the modernization of the building

Less than ten years ago, the city hall of Konczesti received European and state funds in the amount of more than three million lei for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the house in Meren.

The project, entitled “Expansion and modernization of the boarding house for the elderly, Koncesti commune, Mereni village, Dambovitsa county”, included the modernization and expansion of the living space, food warehouse and kitchen, as well as the club for the elderly. .