The woman who gave birth in front of the hospital in Urziceni was discriminated against by the PNL mayor of the locality, the National Council for Combating Discrimination established / Constantin Sava, fined 10,000 lei

The woman who gave birth in front of the hospital in Urziceni was discriminated against by the mayor of Urziceni, established the board of directors of the National Council for Combating Discrimination (CNCD), which met in the petition settlement meeting on March 20, 2024.

CNCD decided to fine Constantin Sava (PNL) with 10,000 lei because his statements of July 31, 2023 “constitute an act of discrimination committed according to art. 2 para. (6) and art. 15 of OG 137/2000 republished”, according to the CNCD press release.

The decision according to which the woman was discriminated against was adopted with the unanimous vote of those present (9), and the fine of 10,000 lei was adopted with 6 votes for and 3 against.

Context

In July 2023, images of a woman giving birth on the sidewalk, in front of the Urziceni Hospital, were published on Facebook, being shared by over one thousand five hundred people. The woman would not have been admitted to the medical unit due to a lack of places.

The patient arrived at the hospital in Urziceni around 5 o’clock and was taken over by a nurse. Since no gynecologist was on duty in the hospital, the nurses decided to call 112 to ask for an ambulance to transfer the patient to the hospital in Slobozia.

The director of the Hospital in Urziceni told Știrile Pro TV that the woman ended up giving birth on the sidewalk because her relatives did not want to wait for the ambulance that was going to take her to the hospital in Slobozia. She explained that the Urziceni hospital does not have a gynecologist because no one wants to take this position, although the town hall offers an income of 20,000 lei.

The mayor of Urziceni, Constantin Sava, had an intervention on Antena3, after the revolting incident in which a woman gave birth on the sidewalk, even though she had arrived in front of the Hospital. The Liberal mayor said that “it’s unfortunate what happened”, but that “poor her, she didn’t know her head”.