Activist Fiodor Ghelici demands that MP Vladimir Hotineanu, who is also a surgeon, should apologize publicly to the family of his brother-in-law Iurie Chirita, who was operated on the stomach by Hotineanu and who died in four months, and that he should give back the money he asked for the surgery. The activist also reiterated his call to the prosecutors to deprive Vladimir Hotineanu of parliamentary immunity so that he could be questioned in court.
In a news conference at IPN, Fiodor Ghelici said the MP is given several days to offer his apologies to the mother and family of his brother-in-law. A protest will be mounted in front of the Parliament Building at 10am on September 29. They will bring a coffin to draw lawmakers’ attention to the acts of their colleague Vladimir Hotineanu, who endangers the lives of his patients. The surgeon is accused of performing operations for the sake of profit as most of his patients die shortly after they are operated by him.
Fiodor Ghelici said the lawmaker warned him publicly that he will sue him for slander, but none of the members of his family and of the family of the victim, who possess information about the surgeon’s acts, have been summoned for questioning during a year. Ghelici filed a complaint against Hotineanu to the Prosecutor General’s Office and was recently announced that the case was closed without the lawmaker being even questioned. The prosecutors invoked the MP’s immunity.
The activist also said that he will not leave Vladimir Hotineanu alone until the court bans him from operating and will make sure that he is held accountable for the death of the people operated by him.
A year ago, the brother-in-law of Fiodor Ghelici was operated by Vladimir Hotineanu and would have paid US$3,600 in recompense for nurses, for anesthesia and for hospitalization. Even if he had a health policy, he was obliged to pay for everything, as Ghelici said. In four months of the surgery, the man’s state of health worsened. He underwent chemotherapy in Tiraspol, but it didn’t help. He died on September 25.
