Marin Bodale, deputy chairman of the College of Medical Physicists of Romania (CFMR), told AGERPRES on Wednesday that eight people practised medical physics at healthcare facilities without having the required educational background.
The eight people worked as medical physicists at private and public medical facilities in Bucharest, Bacau, Alba, Teleorman, and Arad.
According to Bodale, most of them worked at healthcare facilities in Bucharest City.
He added that some of them are still practising.
"So far as we know, some of them continue to work as medical physicists (...) one of them has gone abroad and got hired by a private maker of medical devices," he said.
He argued that they could endanger the life of the patients and the safety of medical staff.
"They would compute the necessary doses. Doctors provide a dose in the file and want their treatment plans to be carried through. The administered dose has to be rightly calculated by the medical physicists, but the dose in these instances is not certain to have been rightly calculated as long as the unqualified physicists do not have basic educational background required," said Bodale.
He added that he had reported this situation to the Ministry of Health on several occasions, and also to the National Commission on Nuclear Activities Control (CNCAN).
"The Ministry of Health has never responded to our requests (...) We have submitted written complaints with the ministry over the years, not with the current minister of health, but with all previous ministers," added Bodale.
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