New hope for Romanian baby with atrophied intestines
Bucharest (AP) – the mere fact of Andrei still alive disconcerting to the medical, because the tiny baby’s tiny limbs you predicted just a few days of life when he was born almost without intestines, eight months ago. Has now emerged a glimmer of hope for another miracle. Several people in Europe and United States have begun to offer money so that Andrei has a complicated bowel transplant in us installations, announced on Thursday the pediatrician Catalin Cirstoveanu, doctor on the baby seat. Offers arrived after the Associated Press information spread last week the way in which Cirstoveanu, director of the neonatal ward of children hospital Marie Curie in Bucharest, moved to babies abroad receive vital surgeries as a way to avoid a culture of corruption in which many doctors operate solely with bribes. The photographs, distributed by the AP, by Andrei in an incubator generated a feeling of solidarity in the world. “Have come offers of aid, especially from abroad, of a non-governmental organization,” said Cirstoveanu. The cost of the operation amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars, a far cry from the scope of the Roma parents of Andrei, who live in a poor in the eastern part of Romania region. The average salary in Romania is of 350 euros (460 dollars). The culture of bribery in the hospitals of Romania is so entrenched that nurses expect...
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