maternity

Three Newborns Infected with Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria at Bucharest Maternity Hospital

Three newborns birthed at Bucharest’s Giulesti Maternity were confirmed with staphylococcus aureus infections, one of which is still hospitalized in serious condition at the Grigore Alexandrescu Children’s Hospital.

Newborns Infections Scandal: Giulesti Maternity Clinic Halts Surgeries, Two New Cases Confirmed

All admissions into Bucharest’s Giulesti Maternity Clinic were stopped starting with Friday, and 68 scheduled surgeries were deferred to other hospitals, after more cases in which newborns birthed at the institution were found infected with drug-resistant bacteria.

Newborn Infections Scandal: Maternity Hospital Employees Found With Drug-Resistant Bacteria

Romania’s Health Ministry announced on Thursday that drug-resistant bacteria was found in samples taken from eleven employees of the Giulesti Maternity Hospital in Bucharest, the same institution from which at least 15 newborns were found with infections in the past month.

Romanian Mothers To Receive Child-Rearing Benefits After Third Birth – Bill

Romanian senators Emilian Francu (liberal) and Elena Mitrea (social democrat) have put forward a bill whereby maternity leave and child-rearing benefits will be provided for all births, not only the first three, starting in 2013.

Romanian President Passes Law On Maternity Leave, Child-Rearing Benefit

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Monday passed the law approving government emergency ordinance 111/2010 on maternity leave and child-rearing benefit.

Sixth Baby Dies Following Bucharest Maternity Fire

A sixth baby has died from injuries sustained on August 16 when a fire broke out in the intensive care unit of a Bucharest maternity, leaving five newborns dead and six others severely injured.

Romanian Prosecutors Start Criminal Investigations Against Neonatology Head In Maternity Fire Case

Romanian prosecutors Friday started criminal investigations against neonatologist Adrian Ion Toma on charges of negligence, in the case involving a fire at the Bucharest Giulesti maternity hospital, which resulted in the death of five newborn infants and severe injury of six others.

Romanian Prosecutors Question Maternity Hospital Interim Manager In Fire Case

Romanian prosecutors on Monday questioned Victoria Nicolau, the interim manager of the Giulesti maternity hospital, where a fire killed five babies and left six others severely injured on August 16.

Romanian Medical Assistant Charged With Negligent Homicide, Arrested For 29 Days

A Bucharest lower court on Tuesday ruled to have Florentina Cirstea, the medical assistant detained in connection with the incident at the Giulesti maternity hospital, placed in preventive custody for 29 days.

Parents Of Babies Killed In Romanian Maternity Hospital Explosion To Receive State Aid – Sources

Romania’s Government discussed in its meeting Wednesday the proposal to give financial aid to the parents of babies dead or injured in the accident that took place Monday evening at the Giulesti maternity hospital in Bucharest, said people close to the matter.

Death Toll Among Babies Rises To Four, Seven Others In Critical Condition

One of the eight newborn babies severely injured in the explosion at the Giulesti maternity hospital in Bucharest died Tuesday morning, at the Grigore Alexandrescu children hospital, taking the death toll among babies to four, Health Ministry undersecretary Raed Arafat said Tuesday.

Three Newborn Babies Killed In Bucharest Maternity Hospital Explosion

Three newborn babies were killed in the intensive care unit of the Giulesti maternity hospital in Bucharest on Monday, in an explosion caused by an electrical fault, people close to the matter said.