The Bucharest Procuratorate announced Friday it has launched prosecutions for homicide against a doctor accused of having made "no attempt resuscitation" of Cameroonian footballer.
Victim of a heart attack on May 7 during a match of the Romanian championship, footballer Patrick Ekeng passed from life to death. Six weeks after his burial in Yaoundé Romanian justice has launched prosecutions for homicide against a doctor who was present alongside footballer and has made "no resuscitation attempt."
According to AFP, Elena Duta, emergency medicine specialist and employee of a private ambulance company, was aboard the vehicle that transported Ekeng to hospital just minutes after her discomfort. Prosecutors said the doctor, "but did not assess the health of the footballer and made no attempt at resuscitation (...), merely put it in charge of the emergency hospital Bucharest ".
"While among the causes of death of Patrick Ekeng, are the heart problems he suffered, by its unjustified inaction, Elena Duta quashed any chance of survival" of the latter, they stressed. According to forensic experts called by the prosecution, over 95% of people with tachyarrhythmia survive cardiac arrest if defibrillation occurs within the first 60 seconds. "The chances of survival are dwindling by 5.5% with every minute that passes," they said.
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