Nurse in Romania Faces Murder Case for Negligence

Present society teaches parents to trust only the healthcare professionals when it comes to their children’s health. But unwanted situations also teach parents to never completely give their trust to health experts for their safety.

People, including those in nursing shoes, can neglect their duties at the most unlikely circumstances. Just recently in Romania, Florentina Daniela Cirstea did a terrible mistake that ended in the tragic death of five newborns and left six others injured.

Cirstea, a nurse, will face a murder case because of allegedly neglecting her duties. According to a surveillance video, she left the ICU unit of the Giulesti Maternity Hospital in Bucharest for 12 minutes, the time when a fire broke out and put the children ablaze. The video also shows Cirstea left the ICU several times that day.

The fire started in an electrical cable attached to the air-conditioning unit of the intensive care room, quickly swept the room, burning incubators and other medical equipments according to prosecutor’s preliminary conclusion.

Surveillance footage also showed medical staff and parents were frantically trying to enter, breaking the door with to chair, to save the children from the burning ICU. Respondents could have easily entered if the person having the access card to the door was present, who apparently was nowhere around. - CNN