Employees from the Gynecology and Obstetrics Department filed a criminal complaint against Tanje Vulović, head nurse at the Pljeval hospital, for endangering the lives of newborns.
Fifteen nurses and two hygienists, whose names are known to "Vijesta", accuse Vulović of mobbing and illegal transfer from one workplace to another.
It was confirmed to "Vijesti" that the police, on the order of the prosecution, took statements from five workers of the Gynecology and Obstetrics Department, and from the others next week. Vulović did not want to comment on the accusations because, she claims, she is not familiar with the details of the report.
Obstetric nurses claim that from May to October, Vulović assigned them to work in the Infectious and Internal Departments of the hospital, from where they returned in the same uniforms to work in the Maternity Hospital - in the box with the babies.
The police took statements from five midwives, who strongly accuse the head nurse
They believe that the babies in the Maternity Hospital could have been infected, because they worked with the most seriously ill patients at the Infectious, including those with jaundice and other infectious diseases.
They claim that they never received anything in writing from the hospital management, but only a verbal order from Vulović who, they claim, threatened them with dismissal and punishment if they refused.
They pointed out that they complained to the head of the department Miodrag Dakić, the then Minister of Health Miodrag Radunović, the director of the Health Fund Kenan Hrapović and the president of the Health Trade Union Ljiljana Krivokapić, but that nothing was done.
Because of the order to work in the Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease Departments in addition to the Maternity Hospital, there was a rebellion this summer by older obstetric nurses who did not accept it.
The director of the hospital, Zoran Tabaš, previously told "Vijesta" that the midwives were hired due to the lack of medical staff in the Internal Department, as five or six nurses were on sick leave.
He then said that midwives will not do the work of general nurses, but that they are hired to take patients to doctor's consultations and diagnostics.
Lives were in danger
The midwives claim that they were not sufficiently educated to work with the most difficult patients, given that they are all obstetric nurses by profession.
"By working in the Internal Medicine Department, we would put the lives of patients in danger, and upon returning to the Maternity Hospital, we could infect the babies. "A colleague who works in the box with babies had to start an infusion in the internal department of a woman who has jaundice, and then she returned to work in the maternity hospital," claims one midwife.
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