Four ICU doctors at Bucharest’s Sf. Pantelimon Emergency Clinical Hospital have been sent to trial, moving the case into a stage where prosecutors’ allegations must be tested in court. The allegations are exceptionally serious, which is precisely why an indictment cannot be presented as a verdict.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Bucharest Tribunal, the case concerns anaesthesia and intensive-care doctors Maria Miron, Mirela Păiuș, Victor Popov and Carmen Andreea Sișu. The charges vary by defendant and include aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder and attempting to cause the commission of an offence.
Prosecutors allege that four ICU patients died after life-sustaining treatment was deliberately reduced and medical records were altered. The indictment describes alleged reductions in noradrenaline doses, lower oxygen delivery through mechanical ventilation and a failure to resuscitate selected patients. Those are the prosecution’s allegations, not findings established by a court.
Two nurses, Mariana Călin and Elena Donatella Dan, were also sent to trial on allegations of false testimony; one also faces an allegation of intellectual forgery, HotNews reported, citing the Prosecutor’s Office.
The legal change is concrete: this is no longer solely a criminal investigation. The court will have to examine, in adversarial proceedings, the forensic assessments, data collected from medical devices, clinical documentation and the causal link prosecutors allege between the described acts and the deaths. The supplied material contains no defence response, hospital response or date for a first hearing. In a case about professional limits and safeguards for critically ill patients, the quality of that examination matters more than categorical language from the investigation stage.
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- HotNews · Source date: 2026-11-10
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