The shocking allegations of a mother who lost her daughter after she got sick in Arges , in the infections wave that scandalized the whole country.
Ioana was barely a year old and died at the Marie Curie Hospital in Bucharest in February, after two days of undergoing dialysis.
The family accuses doctors that they were too quick to put her on dialysis, although the child showed signs of recovery.
According to parents, physicians haven’t looked for signs of other sources of illness than the hemolytic uremic syndrome. Another bacterium would have actually attacked the girl's lungs.
Little Ioana died from pneumonia.In response, doctors at Marie Curie say it is a criminal investigation following which they will make statements.
Prosecutors have started investigations on charges of manslaughter.
The grief stricken grandmother is asking for explanations as to Ioana’s death.
I did not understand anything from the answers received. I still do not know what killed Ioana. Nobody told me: for this child we did everything we could. Nobody knows how these children got sick, "said Ioana’s grandmother, Sunday on the Daily Summary.
Official documents show no signs of E.coli.
Ioana’s grandmother spoke to the Health Minister, Patriciu Achimaș-Cadariu.
„He was not able to answer to anything I have asked him. First he told me he was a doctor and that he studied at the medical school. But he could not. He seemed weak to me”, the woman said.
„I asked why they did not set up a crisis cell earlier. He could not give me an answer. I asked why he did not show up at the Marie Curie hospital to see the children, because that’s where they were, not in Pitești, and he said: Madam I kept in touch, it was all under control”, Ioana’s grandmother said.
According to her, the Marie Curie hospital was understaffed. "The weekend killed the child and the she was treated in intensive care. There was nobody in charge of the child (...). Her mother and I spoke in vain. Nobody even noticed us. "
Who is guilty for the deaths of children suffering from hemolytic uremic syndrome?
„Nobody asked us what kind of cheese the child ate. There was no epidemiologic investigation carried out in our home(...). No measure was taken until the child could not brie the”, the grandmother accused.
Asked if he thought the health system knew the truth about the death of children, she said, "they know but won’t tell."
„The truth is being hidden. Several authorities are involved. Some would not lose their position and others are incapable”, she accused
Ioana’s mother doubt that the truth about her daughter’s death will ever be known.
The painful outcry of a mother who does not know why her child died: "We are treated like in the third world!"