The father of a 15-year-old boy, who died at the Mother and Child Institute in Chisinau, said doctors of the Intensive Care Section didn’t allow him to visit his son if he didn’t pay 100 to 200 lei for a visit. If the intervention of doctors was needed at night, he could found no one as the doctors slept, while the door to the Intensive Care Section was blocked.

In a news conference at IPN, Gheorghe Cretu said his boy, who suffered from scoliosis, underwent four difficult operations. An implant was put in his backbone. After the last surgery, the boy had stayed at the Mother and Child Institute for two months and a half. In the period, the father had been near his son. However, doctors often asked for money from him for allowing him to see his son. After he was discharged, the boy was joyful and wanted to return to school. On June 2, his state of health worsened and he started to choke. The ambulance team that came to their home administered an injection to the boy, but didn’t take him to the hospital. After the parent called doctors from the hospital and persons close to the Head of State, the boy was ultimately admitted to the hospital.

The father said the boy’s state of health stabilized, but doctors didn’t allow them to enter the Section, at least to change his clothes. In the morning of June 10, the father wanted to see his son, but the doctors didn’t allow him to. As a result of a quarrel with these, he could enter the room and saw his son dying. The doctors could not explain the exact cause of death. Those from the morgue said the boy had weak immunity and could not cope with a viral infection. He wondered how a child who underwent difficult surgery and who had a strong heart, as the doctors said, could not resist a banal viral infection.

Chairman of the public association “Moldova Mea” Fiodor Ghelici said the boy’s father sought help from his for the first operation several years ago. The boy was in the worst state among the four children who benefitted from spinal transplant through the agency of the association and with financial support from President Igor Dodon. He was a witness to the parents’ struggle for the life of their child and saw that corruption and the lack of modern medical equipment, as there are good doctors, are the main problems faced by the national health system. There are by about 20 children in the Intensive Care Section of the Mother and Child Institute in Chisinau and their parents have to daily pay taxes to be able to visit them.

In this connection, Fiodor Ghelici said he will submit a complaint to the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office and will request these to investigate the situation at the given hospital, which turned into a business center and no one cares about the children admitted there if money is not paid to doctors there.