Prime Minister Pavel Filip on September 24 requested that officials in charge should be dismissed following the case of death on Lech Kaczyński St in Chisinau. On September 20, a man died in the street as the ambulance needed over 40 minutes to get to him. The Premier insisted on the dismissal of the vice director of the Emergency Medical Assistance Service who is responsible for Chisinau municipality, the dispatcher and the ambulance doctor, IPN reports.
Pavel Filip also requested to punish disciplinarily the senior doctor of the Dispatcher’s Service, the vice director on logistics of the National Emergency Pre-Hospital Medical Assistance Center who served as director in the period, the secretary of state at the Ministry of Health who is in charge of medical assistance and the director of the Common Emergency Service 112.
Pavel Filip said the presented explanations are not plausible. He instructed the Ministry of Health to request the Prosecutor General’s Office to investigate this case. “I don’t know what is more serious in this case: the incompetence, bad intention or carelessness. I think the prosecutors should find out,” he stated.
According to the Misty of Heath’s report, the call to the 112 Service was made at 8:13pm. An ambulance set off in only 32 minutes and arrived at the patient in 9 minutes.
The case was made public on a social networking site by a passerby who called 112.
