Suspicious Deaths at Pantelimon Hospital: Four ICU Docs Probed
Prosecutors are certain that the dose of noradrenaline was intentionally lowered.
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Prosecutors of the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Bucharest Tribunal announce, on Thursday, the extension of the criminal investigation into the file regarding the deaths in the Intensive Care Unit Section of the “St. Pantelimon” Emergency Clinical Hospital in Bucharest. Four doctors are targeted, in connection with the deaths of patients between 16.03.2022 and 04.04.2024.
“On 30.04.2025 and 22.05.2025, the prosecutors of the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Bucharest Tribunal ordered the extension of the criminal investigation against a number of 4 suspects, Anesthesia and Intensive Care Specialists at the “Saint Pantelimon Bucharest” Emergency Clinical Hospital, in connection with the deaths of patients hospitalized in the ICU, between 16.03.2022 and 04.04.2024″, the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Bucharest Tribunal announced on Thursday in a press release.
The crimes of which the doctors are accused are premeditated murder, instigation of qualified murder and attempted qualified murder. “On 18.05.2023, at 13:21, the suspect M.M., in her capacity as an Anesthesia and Intensive Care Specialist at the “Saint Pantelimon Bucharest” Emergency Clinical Hospital, Emergency “Saint Pantelimon Bucharest”, taking advantage of the obvious vulnerability of the victim S.S. (patient in serious condition, comatose, hemodynamically unstable, hospitalized in the Covid ICU Department) and acting with the intention of ending her life, reduced the dose of noradrenaline administered through the injection machine, from the value of 15 ml/h to the value of 1ml/h, which led 4 hours and 39 minutes later to the installation of cardio-respiratory arrest, followed by the death of the patient declared at 18:45″, the prosecutors show. Another act took place, according to the prosecutors, on 04.04.2024, at 15:50.
“The suspects M.M. and P.M., both as specialists in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the “Saint Pantelimon” Emergency Clinical Hospital in Bucharest, taking advantage of the victim S.C.’s obvious vulnerability (patient in serious condition, hemodynamically unstable, mechanically ventilated via tracheal cannula, admitted to the ICU) and acting with the intention of ending her life, they reduced the dose of noradrenaline administered via injection machine, from the value of 10 ml/h, to the value of 1ml/h, which led 6 hours and 25 minutes later to the onset of cardio-respiratory arrest, followed by the patient’s death, declared at 23:00″, the prosecutors’ statement also states.
According to them, another act took place on the morning of 13.04.2023.
“The suspect P.V., as a specialist in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the “Saint Pantelimon Bucharest” Emergency Clinical Hospital, taking advantage of the victim U.N.’s obvious vulnerability (patient in critical condition, comatose, hemodynamically unstable, hospitalized in the Covid ICU Department), tried to end his life by reducing the dose of noradrenaline administered through the injection machine, from the value of 10 ml/h, to the value of 1ml/h (minimum value that was maintained for a considerable period of time, at least until 23:33), but the victim’s death did not occur due to circumstances independent of the author’s will”, the cited statement also states. On 16.03.2022, at 09:40, according to prosecutors, another female Anesthesia and Intensive Care Specialist at the “Saint Pantelimon Bucharest” Emergency Clinical Hospital, “through nurse T.T., determined another person to reduce the dose of adrenaline administered through the injection machine to the victim C.M. (patient in serious condition, hemodynamically unstable, mechanically ventilated, hospitalized in the Covid ICU Department) to the value of 3ml/h, acting with the intention of suppressing her life”.
“On the same occasion, he also gave the indication not to resuscitate the patient, which led 16 hours and 5 minutes later to the installation of cardio-respiratory arrest, followed by the patient’s death, declared on 17.03.2022, at 01:45”, the prosecutors say. They specify that the suspects were charged with premeditation, since through the perspective of the medical profession, they knew the effects of noradrenaline, the fact that this substance is essential for maintaining optimal blood pressure, as well as the consequences of its lack, namely a decrease in blood pressure, followed by cardio-respiratory arrest.
“By suddenly reducing the doses of noradrenaline, the causal chain that led to the patients’ deaths was thus triggered. During the process of providing medical care, although they had the impression that the victims’ death would not occur immediately, the suspects could have intervened at any time to save the victim’s life, but they did not act in such a manner,” the prosecutors also point out.
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