The case is as disgusting as it is shocking, revealed “Iasi newspaper” in the largest hospital of Moldova. More sources from “St. Spyridon” from Iasi describe a situation that is difficult to imagine: a doctor using the staff and resources of the medical department to provide palliative care to his parents for the past three years, but in the department of dermatology, and all with the taxpayers’ money.

Several people from the hospital confirmed to us that in the last three years the father of Prof. Laura Geuke-Solovyastru, the head of the department, spent more time in the hospital in the medical department than at home.

Since the man is immobilized in bed and cannot take care of himself, sources at the hospital explained to our publication that he was constantly helped by the staff of the department, the nurses there, including receiving medicine from the pharmacy of the medical unit.

When contacted by phone, the head of the department denied all the allegations, but after an investigation by “Ziarul de Iaşi”, the hospital management checked the hospitalization records: the doctor’s father and mother appear to have “multiple periods of continuous hospitalization” starting in 2018 and 2019. From Monday, 31 in October, a commission will be established to investigate the case.

Sources from the hospital: “The father was alone in the reserve for about three years, he was constantly taken care of”

Hospital sources claim that the doctor’s father, Nicolae Solovestru, who was immobilized in bed for several years, was constantly in the dermatology department at the St. Spyridon”. At first it was imported for several weeks or months, but recently it has been almost constantly in reserve.

There he is under the constant supervision of the medical staff of the ward with all the care that patients who enter a palliative care ward usually receive: accommodation in reserve, feeding and washing of the bed, daily care, always someone in the salon and provision of appropriate drugs. Similar service in a specialized hospital can cost several thousand lei per month.

“He has been alone in the reserve for almost three years, when he is sick, he sometimes gets in, sometimes he doesn’t. He used to take it home, he would come back, now he stays permanently. The medicines he needs are recorded in the ward register, and he gets them from the hospital pharmacy. Someone from the medical staff must always be with him, and the other 27-30 patients who are hospitalized there, for example, are cared for by one nurse. The hardest part is during the night shift, when only one nurse has to work in the ward and stay with him. And nurses too. And there are problems with the lack of personnel, there are 6 nurses left in the department out of 13, the shifts have changed, from 8 hours, as they were before, to 12 hours now,” the doctors noted. staff working in “St. Spyridon” for “Ziarul de Iasi”.

Also, the same sources report that information is circulating in the department that his mother will be brought in in the near future. This is usually done in winter.

“Her mother was also there, she was there for six months, she left only in August, it usually gets cold and stays until summer. Laura Gheucă-Solovăstru tells the staff: “They are my parents and no one can do anything to me,” the sources also clarified.

Read the full article at “Iasi newspaper“