However, it is uncertain whether this accreditation will be sufficient for surgeries to be performed in good conditions
The Sfânta Maria hospital in Bucharest complies with the accreditation conditions for lung transplant operations, is the conclusion of the National Transplant Agency, already communicated to the Minister of Health, Florian Bodog.
The conclusion comes just days after the AKH hospital in Vienna announced to the Bucharest authorities that it can no longer accept Romanian patients in need of a lung transplant.
RRA journalist Marilena Frâncu sought to know from the president of the National Transplant Agency, Professor Radu Deac, if this type of surgery can be performed at the Sfânta Maria hospital.
Radu Deac says that the hospital meets the conditions for accreditation and that Dr. Igor Tudoreche is listed as team leader in the accreditation file, which means that he agrees to come and operate in Romania. Radu Deac could not say when operations will begin, as this information is outside his area of expertise.
The Bucharest hospital had been accredited for lung transplantation last year in the spring, but no such operation was performed there. At the end of the year, an investigation by the State Health Inspectorate revealed that the hospital did not have all the necessary equipment for lung transplantation, including a laboratory for analysis, and that the medical team was not complete.
Journalist Adriana Turea asked the president of the National Association for Patient Protection, Vasile Barbu, today if it is possible to perform a lung transplant at the Sfânta Maria hospital.
Vasile Barbu: “There are no teams that have an activity in an integrated way, because we have to have a specialist who does the sampling, with experience. We have to prepare the patient for this, we have to have the transplant itself and also post-transplant, we need special care.
A doctor will come from a clinic in Europe, very good, but where do we get the rest of the specialists? Will a whole team come, involving dozens of people, including medical assistants?
Because, let’s not forget that we must prepare not only the actual medical act, we must also prepare the medical assistance”.
