{"id":5273,"date":"2016-08-03T18:50:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T15:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/en\/?p=5273"},"modified":"2016-08-11T10:05:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T07:05:18","slug":"vasilica-constantin-a-lifetime-nightmare-in-the-care-of-the-romanian-state-from-the-crib-to-the-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/en\/vasilica-constantin-a-lifetime-nightmare-in-the-care-of-the-romanian-state-from-the-crib-to-the-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Vasilica Constantin \u2013 a lifetime nightmare in the care of the Romanian State, from the crib to the cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On August 2nd, 2016 CLJ\u2019s monitoring team visited the center for young adults with disabilities Endemedica in Bragadiru, alongside the National Authority for Persons with Disabilities (ANPD) and the Center for Media Investigations. The object of this visit was to observe the way in which human rights are respected at this center. CLJ has submitted complaints to the competent authorities.<\/em><\/p>\n

More on the case of Vasilica Constantinan more details on the regulation visit of August 2nd<\/sup>, 2016 can be read in the article below, signed by Ovidiu Vanghele and taken of <\/em>www.investigatiimedia.ro<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

We want to remind you that in 2014 <\/em>ECHR held Romania accountable<\/em><\/a> in the CLJ case on behalf of Valentin Campeanu against Romania. In less than two years from this ECHR victory, we find that Valentin\u2019s death was dust in the wind for the Romanian state, and that one more person with disabilities falls victim to the same faith.<\/em><\/p>\n

Vasilica Constantin was born in 1989. She had been abandoned at birth and lived her entire life in the Romanian system dedicated to the protection of persons with disabilities. This particular protection system brought her aHIV infection, a chronic infantile encephalopathy diagnostic; this is where she developed severe psychomotor retardation, and by the care of this protection system she ended up in prison camp<\/em> Endemedica in Bragadiru, called \u201cCenter for the Protection and Assistance of Adults with Disabilities\u201d. After less than two years spent here, Vasilica died. On Children\u2019s Day in 2016, when she was 27 years old.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She weighed 34 kilograms.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Center for Media Investigation wrote at the end of last year about the Endemedica business, disguised under the name of \u201ccenter for the protection and assistance for adults with disabilities.<\/p>\n

A former paramedic, Teodor Laz\u0103r, owner of a policlinic in Pope\u0219ti, near Bucharest, in 2014 transformed overnight a former old persons\u2019 home into a center for the disabled. He had just received in his care multiple persons with mental disabilities through a contract signed by the former president of the National Authority for Persons with Disabilities (NAPD), Mihaela Ungureanu, who had been in function ranking as a state secretary until recently, including during the Ciolo\u0219 Cabinet. Ungureanu was at the time the head of social assistance in Sector 3, Bucharest.<\/p>\n

Teodor Laz\u0103r and his wife, Nadia \u2013 General Practitioner, had stumbled into the domain of disabled care before: their policlinic ensured the medical services for 30 beneficiaries in a similar center located in Breaza. The Center for Media Investigations discovered and penal denounced the fact that six out of the 30 beneficiaries here died in suspicious conditions and that five out of six death certificates were falsely filled in.<\/p>\n

Today at the Endemedica center in Bragadiru, located on str. Speran\u021bei (N.B. Hope St), there are 41 adults, the most of which young adults. They all have mental disabilities, some severe, and some of them have associated physical disabilities.<\/p>\n