Newborns Infections Scandal: Giulesti Maternity Clinic Halts Surgeries, Two New Cases Confirmed

All admissions into Bucharest’s Giulesti Maternity Clinic were stopped starting with Friday, and 68 scheduled surgeries were deferred to other hospitals, after more cases in which newborns birthed at the institution were found infected with drug-resistant bacteria.

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Sixty-eight surgeries were planned at the clinic for the next week, with all of them rescheduled at other medical facilities throughout Bucharest.

The hospital was required by the Bucharest Public Health Directorate to stop all new admissions, after at least 17 newborns birthed at the maternity hospital were found with various infections.

Ten of them are still hospitalized with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, with two new cases of the infection confirmed on Friday; in total, at least fourteen newborns birthed since October 24 were found with the drug-resistant bacteria.

Health Ministry investigations published on Thursday showed that eleven of the hospital’s neonatalogy section were found carrying the bacteria, with its spread suspected to have been facilitated by the personnel’s poor hygiene and failure to disinfect their hands.

A spokesperson for the Giulesti Maternity Hospital denied the idea that the infants caught in the infections while they were in the clinic, adding that the institution started epidemiologic investigations.

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