The Foundation For The Defense Of Citizens Against Citizens Against State Abuses (FACIAS) has called for an urgent parliamentary inquiry to investigate the abuses that led to the tragic death of 16-year-old Drăgan Marius Andrei, who died of untreated peritonitis at the County Emergency Hospital of Targu Jiu. Instead of assuming criminal responsibility, the authorities have imposed derisory penalties on the medical staff involved, and the criminal investigation has been unjustifiably blocked for over six months.
FACIAS has formally referred the matter to Parliament's Health Committees to initiate a parliamentary inquiry to clarify the reasons why investigations are stagnating, to establish institutional accountability and to investigate how it is possible that, in a constitutional state, the death of a child can be treated as a simple administrative error. Andrei's case is not an exception, but the result of a criminal medical system: medical procedures ignored, professional obligations violated, managerial passivity, a network of silent complicity between state institutions and lack of humanity.
Despite the existence of documented evidence and the acknowledgement of these facts by the hospital's internal commission, no individual has been held genuinely accountable for the actions in question. The sanctions imposed included a 10% pay reduction for a period of three months and financial penalties amounting to 3,000 lei. However, these sanctions appear to be disproportionate to the severity of the infraction. Concurrently, the criminal case remains stagnant: pivotal expert opinions have been postponed or not yet conducted, and the state has declined to fund the costs of the requisite toxicological expertise.
FACIAS demands justice for Andrei! The Parliament has an obligation to take firm action in this case, not just in reaction to an individual tragedy, but to prevent a dangerous precedent from being repeated: where a child's life is valued in the accounts and the lack of reaction becomes the institutional norm.