The Romanian Public Prosecutor’s Office is investigating a network of doctors suspected of having removing heart implants from deceased people to place them in living patientsbilling them to the National Health Insurance.
The Romanian Police announced that they will execute nine arrest warrants once morest people investigated in this case that has shocked public opinion in the country, following a suspect was already arrested on the night of Saturday, February 18, 2023, reports the G4media.ro portal.
According to this medium, which cites sources close to the investigation, the prosecutors accuse several doctors of have sold patients stents, defibrillators and pacemakers at half the market price, with which they would have put between 2,000 and 3,000 euros per unit in their pockets.
“So far, 170 patients operated on with medical devices from deceased people have been identified.“, indicates the source.
The scandal broke out following the Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that on Friday it had proceeded to question several people and ordered records in the framework of an investigation into the fraudulent use of implants extracted from dead people, often in patients who did not need them.
The investigation deals with the crimes of abuse of authority, bribery, intellectual falsification and fraud.
It was reported that cardiologist Dan Tesloianu, from the hospital in the town of Iasi, was sent to preventive detention on suspicion of having led the network with other doctors who procured the implants of the deceased.
Prosecutors accuse him of “intentionally and defectively exercising his functions, by implementing, between 2017 and August 2022, 238 devices removed from cadavers or whose source is unknown, ignoring the risk of causing serious medical problems or even death for patients“.
According to the researchers, some of the patients were given deliberately diagnosed diseases that had no and even drugs were dispensed so they would feel worse and end up needing the devices.
In addition, five doctors allegedly implicated are also accused of accepting bribes from patients for their services.
