Thursday, April 5, 2012

Romanian doctor darts around Europe to save babies caught in web of corruption back home

Romanian doctor darts around Europe to save babies caught in web of corruption back home - The Washington Post: Dr. Catalin Cirstoveanu runs a cardio unit with state-of-the-art equipment at a Bucharest children’s hospital. But not a single child has been treated in the year-and-a-half since it opened.

The reason? Medical staff he needs to bring in to run the machinery would have expected bribes.

So Cirstoveanu has launched a lonely crusade to save babies who come to him for care: He flies them to western Europe on budget flights so they can be treated by doctors who don’t demand kickbacks.

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