Health Minister Alexandru Rafila says plastic surgery doctors at Baghdasar Arseni Hospital who refuse to work as security guards must “understand that they are working at the hospital to meet the needs of patients.” He reports that checks are being carried out in the medical department, News.ro reports.

Alexandru Rafila commented on Monday on Medika Tv about the situation in Baghdasar-Arseni Hospital, where seven doctors from the plastic surgery clinic submitted their resignations from the security guards’ contracts starting November 1, presenting his gesture as a consequence of “the current conditions at Baghdasar Hospital” and referring to ” the risk of abuse of official position”, which would expose him to “significant risks from a professional point of view”.

“I believe that the truth is always somewhere in the middle. I know that doing plastic surgery is much more interesting than treating large burns, it is more comfortable and from a professional point of view. But I again appeal to people’s conscience to understand that they work in the hospital to meet the needs of the patients, what we can all do is go home and think that it is better to do something else than the job that we have. willing or completely refusing to do so, as in the case of those who refuse to do security. This is a matter of conscience and professional ethics. Reasons and motives can be found,” said Alexandru Rafila.

Rafila said he had received a report from the hospital authorities. He emphasized that in this hospital there are “mutual claims between doctors and management”, and “patients are not interested in such disputes”.

“The position of power held by one party or some professionals ultimately affects patients, and I personally would not be able to sleep at night if I were making decisions that I know affect the lives and health of my patients. “, Alexandru Rafila added in this context.

Seven doctors at Baghdasar-Arseni Hospital announced on Monday that they had resigned from their contracts with security guards as of November 1 due to “high professional risks”.

“During the morning, 7 doctors from the Department of Plastic Surgery Clinic applied to be released from their security contracts effective 1/11/2023, motivating this gesture as a result of the “current conditions existing at Baghdasar Hospital” and citing the “risk of negligence”. “which would expose him to “high risks from a professional point of view” without any other specifications,” Bagdasar Arseni Hospital said.

According to the quoted source, the hospital management asked the signatories to explain in detail the conditions and risks they talk about in the memos.

“After analyzing the answers we will receive, we will be able to clarify whether there really are conditions and risks that are manifested only during security, and not during normal working hours 7, and which justify such an attitude – or whether it is just a purely subjective reaction to reports submitted to the prosecutor’s office regarding possible criminal violations by 5 of the 7 signatories,” the same source notes.