Doctors Maria Miron and Mirela Paius, from the Intensive Care Unit of St. Pantelimon Hospital, accused of aggravated murder in the case of the suspicious deaths, will be released from custody, the Bucharest Court of Appeal decided on Tuesday.

On August 8, Maria Miron, charged with aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder, and Mirela Paius, charged with aggravated murder, both premeditated, were remanded in custody for 30 days.

The doctors appealed against the Bucharest Court of Appeal’s decision, and their appeal was admitted on Tuesday by the Bucharest Court of Appeal, making the decision final.

Prosecutors allege that in March and April, the doctors had reduced the dose of noradrenaline, which is used to maintain blood pressure, to a patient hospitalised in intensive care, causing him to go into cardio-respiratory arrest.

The investigation in this case was launched following a complaint made by Camelia Stamatoiu, medical care director at St. Pantelimon Hospital. She told prosecutors that, on April 10, she was called by a nurse, who told her that around 20 patients had died in the hospital’s ICU ward from Thursday (April 4) to Saturday (April 6), as the doctors on duty in the ICU, Maria Miron and Mirela Paius, reduced the amount of noradrenaline in some hospitalised patients from 15 or 20ml/h to 1ml/h or even replaced it with physiological serum.

AGERPRES