Few hours after choosing him for the Health portfolio, Premier-designate Dacian Cioloș decided to not include young doctor Andrei Baciu, proposed as Health minister, in his Cabinet anymore, following controversies on his nomination, official sources told local media. Thus, the new proposal for the Health portfolio is Patriciu Achimaş-Cadariu, the chief of the ‘Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuţă’ Oncology Institute in Cluj-Napoca.
After Cioloș’ announcement on 29-year-old doctor Andrei Baciu nominated for the Health minister position, some photos with Baciu posing in underwear as a model started to go about on Facebook.
Moreover, doctors and hospital managers declared themselves confused when hearing about this nomination, arguing that Baciu has neither the training nor the necessary experience to lead a public institution such as the Health ministry, dealing with the entire medical system.
Immediately after the nomination, earlier on Sunday, Andrei Baciu was telling Mediafax that he is honored he has been nominated for the Health minister position, adding that he wanted to solve as many problems of the health system as possible and that he wished to apply everything that he has learnt abroad in Romania.
29yo Andrei Baciu is a doctor and also president of the SOS Patients’ Rights Association. He graduated the Medicine Faculty within “Carol Davila” Medicina and Pharmacy University in Bucharest. He was resident physician at the Cardiac Surgery ward at Fundeni Hospital since January to March 2012. During April 2012-March 2014, he worked at the Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery department at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Rouen in France.
Baciu also worked in thoracic surgey field at “Marius Nasta” Lung Institute in Bucharest from April to September this year and in general surgery field at the Universitar Hospital in the Capital city, from August 2014 to March 2015.
He attended training and conferences on cardiac and thoracic surgery in the Netherlands, Italy, France and UK.
As for the fresh nomination, doctor Patriciu Achimaş-Cadariu is 39 years old and has been leading the Oncology Institute in Cluj-Napoca for three years.
He has been working as attending physician in oncology gynecology and oncological surgery at the Institute in Cluj since 2006. Achimaş-Cadariu is also university docent at the Medicine University in Cluj-Napoca at the oncological surgery department.
He also completed a master’s degree in Advanced Oncology at the University of Ulm in Germany. He is the beneficiary of several internships and training stages, among them one under the leadership of dr. Sanjeev Prashar, in the specialty of Clinical Gynecology and Urogynecology (2001), and another under dr. Pierre Martin-Hirsh, in the specialty of Clinical Gynecologic Oncology and Colposcopy, both conducted in Preston, UK (2003). He was also a specialist trainee in the field of Oncogynecology at the Dr. Horst Schmidt Klinik of Wiesbaden, Germany (May — August 2007). Furthermore, he was an ESGO scholar at the same clinic between October 2007-April 2008.
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