Giuleşti maternity ward disaster reveals bankruptcy of healthcare system

The cause of the worst disaster in the history of Romanian hospitals in decades, the fire at the Panait Sârbu Hospital, which resulted in the death of four newborns and severe burns for seven more is unknown.
It most likely was about a short-circuit of a wire leading into the air conditioning unit combined with the staff negligence who failed to notice the fire had broken out in due time.
Yet people in the system are saying that such hospitals, operating in 100-year old buildings, with old low-capacity installations, do not belong in the twenty first century and get their operating licenses only because of their influential managers.
The hospital, known as the Giuleşti maternity ward, has been run by the same man, doctor Bogdan Marinescu, for the last twenty seven years.
During a news conference held yesterday, the Health Minister, along with the state secretary, the representatives of Bucharest City Hall that manages the hospital, of the Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, of the hospitals where those previously hospitalised in Giuleşti had been transferred, talked about the "normal" manner in which the intervention took place and about the victims, but said nothing about who was guilty for this.
Health Minister Cseke Attila described the fire in the maternity ward as "one of the darkest tragedies in the history of the Romanian healthcare system," yet said explosions could not be eliminated anywhere in the world and invited the media to look up on Google the hospitals in Europe where such incidents had occurred.