Investigators from the Prosecutors’ Office near the District 3 Court in Bucharest have decided to open a criminal case for failure to respect and take legal measures of safety at work, after an electric shock injured two doctors and the patient they were operating on at the Coltea Hospital in the capital, reports local Mediafax.

The incident, which was caused by a faulty instrument, took place last Thursday.

Marian Stamate, the doctor injured by the electric shock, said on Friday that he intended to sue the hospital's management. According to him, last week’s incident was not the first of this kind within the hospital.

The hospital started an internal investigation right after the incident occurred, and the Ministry of Health also announced that it would conduct a wider control at the Coltea Hospital.

The irregularities of the Romanian public healthcare system have held the headiness in recent months. Most recently, the Ministry of Health’s Sanitary Inspection decided to shut down the Intensive Care Unit (ATI) of the Burn Hospital in Bucharest after two people died at the hospital in suspicious conditions. One of the patients died after being filmed with larvae on his neck, while the other one, a woman, died in June after a wrong blood transfusion. The incident happened again last week at the CF2 hospital in Bucharest, when another woman received a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type. The woman is now in a critical condition.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com