The head of the hospital in Murgen should no longer remain in his position, as three patients died and dozens of others fell ill due to his negligence, Health Minister Alexandru Rafila said.

“This negligence has led to illness in several patients and even to the death of some of them. (…) The cause was not confirmed, but apparently there was a digestive syndrome with nausea and vomiting that followed eating. So I understand that the causative agent has not been determined or the search is still ongoing, but eventually the medico-legal examination will confirm the cause of death for each of these patients and the likelihood that this cause of death is food related. consumption is very high,” Alexandrou Rafila said in a statement to the press on Saturday, according to Agerpres.

Asked if a European-level alert was being considered for the food in question, he said that other countries had not been supplied either.

“First of all, I doubt that food from the monastery would be delivered to other countries. I don’t think that food from the monastery was delivered to other countries. It is probably about the raw material, about the fish that was bought from a processor or distributor, I don’t know exactly what quality this person had. The NHS has mechanisms by which it can issue such warnings, but we do not yet have any toxicological results, for example, or microbiological ones, to justify this. They are still looking for the possible agent that caused the illness and death of three people in the food and biological samples of the patients,” Minister Rafila added.

Police have opened a criminal investigation into Murgeni Psychiatric Hospital, where three patients died, one is in a coma, and more than 30 patients suffered indigestion after allegedly eating food based on donated ocean fish. representatives of the monastery.

Several patients with digestive disorders were taken to emergency hospitals in Barlad, Vaslui and Iasi by special vehicles of the Emergency Situations Inspectorate in Vaslui and Iasi.