HealthMin announces he and Premier will go on fact-finding visit to Pitesti hospital

Health Minister Patriciu Achimas-Cadariu told Digi 24 private television broadcaster on Thursday evening that he and Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos will go to the Pediatric Hospital of Pitesti this Friday to take an overall picture of the situation. 

"(...) Tomorrow I will go with the Prime Minister, he is directly interested in this and we will pay a visit to the Children Hospital of Pitesti to see the overall situation there and to take an overall picture of the situation. (...) One must see the situation on site and beyond the situation of the ongoing epidemiological investigation, a social investigation on top of the other investigation can never harm. Simply to see those people's needs, because in the end we do this for the people, not to find the [pathogenic] bacteria. Maybe in the rush of the recent years many regular hygiene norms have been lost. Maybe school doesn't teach us enough. (...) The hygiene component also plays a part when such situations occur, but it's not necessarily to blame this on the parents. These things can occur even in the case of a correct hygiene. We must do the prophylaxis," the minister said. 

He brushed off the idea of a travel alert being issued for Arges County, because no new cases have emerged. 

Asked what could be the causes for the children getting sick, he said he found out from people in Arges County that a great amount of natural fertilizer is used there, thus the development of some germs being possible. 

Asked about the Premier possibly dismissing him, the Health Minister said that he is currently concentrating on ways to help the ill children, and that everything else is secondary. AGERPRES