Giulesti Maternity Hospital In Bucharest Reopens Monday

Oprescu said smoke detectors and video surveillance cameras were mounted in the intensive care unit, which has been renovated over the past few weeks. Oprescu added the maternity has a total 38 nurses, of whom, two nurses per shift, which, he stressed, it is sufficient.

Professor Bogdan Marinescu, former manager of the Giulesti maternity hospital, said two baby incubators were donated to the maternity and two ventilators will also be donated soon.

The Giulesti maternity was closed after the fire of August 16 in the hospital’s intensive care unit. The fire left three premature babies dead and eight others severely injured. Two more babies died in the following days and a third one died last weekend, nearly one month after the fire. Doctors said the other three babies who survived the fire are stable and under constant monitoring.

Three people have been charged, one of whom was placed under arrest.

Florentina Cirstea, the nurse in charge of the maternity hospital’s intensive care unit, was placed under 29-day preventive arrest on charges of manslaughter and unintentionally causing injuries.

The other two suspects, the hospital’s technical department chief and the head of the neonatology department, also face negligence charges but are being investigated at large.