Moldovan PM demands for more resignations, after man dies while waiting ambulance

Chisinau, 24 September /MOLDPRES/ – Prime Minister Pavel Filip has demanded today for resignations in case of death on street Lech Kaczyński. This is the Deputy Director of Emergency Medical Assistance (in charge of Chisinau Municipality), Ambulance Dispatcher in Chisinau and the ambulance doctor. The Prime Minister also called for disciplinary sanctions for: the Superior Medical Officer at the Dispatching Department, CNAMUP Deputy Chief of Staff (who at that time served as Director), Secretary of State at the Ministry of Healthcare in charge of Healthcare and the Director of the Single Service Emergency 112, the government's communication and protocol department has reported.

"More revolting seemed to me the explanations of the Emergency, which more resembles stuttering than explanation. We have seen tendencies to present false info, which was very easy to combat, because they have forgotten that there are GPS systems on cars. There is no explanation that we do not have enough cars, because at that moment there were 4 free cars stationed at the centre and 10 cars that were in sector Centru," said the Prime Minister.

Also, the head of the Cabinet of Ministers asked the Ministry of Healthcare to address the General Prosecutor's Office to investigate this case. "I do not even know what is worse in this case: it is incompetence or bad will or indifference. I believe that the prosecution has to be done," said Pavel Filip.

In the same context, the PM also talked about the inappropriate attitude of doctors. "It is more painful for me. I know how hard it is to be a doctor, I know that the salaries they receive are still not the same as the work they do. But at the same time, I can not accept that low wages or hard work can serve as a justification for not doing your qualitative work as your profession asks. In the present case, I have seen the attitude of doctors when they arrived: replies such as "What do not you know in which country we live?" We know where we live. In a country where not all of them carry out their service missions, service obligations. We all need to have a serious attitude towards the work we do", concluded PM.

The 65-year-old man died on Friday, 20 September, around 20:00, while the ambulance took him over 40 minutes to reach him. According to the report of the Healthcare Ministry, the case was taken over by the 112 Service at 20:13. The ambulance started just over 32 minutes and 10 seconds and reached the patient in 9 minutes and 19 seconds.