UPDATE Chief of ATI from Pantelimon Hospital, interviewed for 6 hours at the Homicide Service / She has witness status, but came with a lawyer / Prosecutors have expanded the investigation: 5 deaths are confirmed another suspect

The head of the intensive care unit at Pantelimon Hospital was questioned today by the Capital Police Homicide Service. Judicial sources told G4Media that prosecutors have expanded their investigation into the Pantelimon case. Five more suspicious deaths will be determined whether or not they are related to premeditated murder charges already filed against two doctors, the sources cited said. According to the investigators, the studies do not include the exhumation procedure, but the necropsy reports that have already been prepared will be examined.

UPDATE 18.22: The head of the ATI Department at the Pantelimon Hospital, Florina Pompilian, was interviewed for almost six hours, at the Homicide Service of the Capital Police, reports Agerpres.

Florina Pompilian did not want to make statements in front of the journalists both at the entrance and at the exit from the police headquarters.

UPDATE 12:15 Representatives of the Public Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Bucharest Court also said that the public prosecutor’s office receives, every day, “at least five” calls about suspicious deaths from hospitals. The prosecutor’s office also said that they are interested in the findings of the five deaths for which the investigation has been extended and that it is not being ruled out.

UPDATE 12:00 The head of ATI from the Pantelimon Hospital arrived at the hearings of the Homicide Service. She has competence as a witness, but she was accompanied by a lawyer. The head of ATI did not make statements when he entered the institution

the original news

Prosecutors announced on Wednesday that the two doctors were detained for 24 hours on charges of attempted murder and mass murder, and a nurse for perjury. The investigators claim that the two female doctors caused the death of a 54-year-old patient, who was hospitalized in a serious condition at the ATI Department, by reducing the dose of nonadrenaline, which led to a cardio-arrest. breathing, and then the death of the patient.

According to G4Media sources, one of the doctors would have argued in front of the prosecutors that there are certain medical procedures that justify reducing the dose of noradrenaline, a procedure that does not actually exist in the case mentioned, say the same sources.

“On 04.04.2024, at 13:17, the MMA and PM defendants, taking advantage of the apparent vulnerability of the victim (the same 54-year-old patient, in a serious condition, hemodynamically unstable, with a blood pressure of 60/36 mm / Hg), working with the intention of suppressing the patient’s life, they reduced the dose of noradrenaline given through the ​​injectomat, from a value of 20 ml / h, to a value of 1 ml / h, which is directed, 58 minutes later, when the cardio-respiratory arrest was entered, and then the death of the mentioned patient at 15:00”, inform the prosecutors.