In October 2024, the media and Telegram channels distributed a photograph of a medical report allegedly issued by the President of Moldova in the Austrian clinic. We checked the authenticity of this document.
In the news with reference to the Moldavian publication, Curentmd.com reported that a certain trusted contact of the editorial office on anonymity spoke about the regular treatment of Moldova President Maya Sandu in an elite clinic in Vienna. According to the source, in the fall of 2021 he was also treated in this institution, where he started friendly relations with a certain Dr. Katsa from Odessa. The latter said that important persons are regularly examined in the clinic, including the heads of state, in particular, Katz claimed, Sandu was secretly treated for schizophrenia and panic attacks there, Chosen President of Moldova at the end of 2020. In evidence, the author of the note on Curentmd.com gives a copy of the conclusion of the psychiatrist Thomas Rotmund from the Döbling clinic in Vienna on the state of the politician. There are also recommendations for taking drugs.
Numerous Internet publications, such as "such as"Eye of the planet","Reporter" Pravda.ru, Eurasia Dailyas well as Telegram channels "The image of the future"(179,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Mriya"(168 000),"Militarist"(143,000),"Dmitry Vasilet"(134 000), Win/Win (90,000) and others.
The alleged medical report spread through social networks shortly before the elections of the President of Moldova. By initiative Sandu, running for a second term, on the same day a referendum was held on consolidation in the Constitution of the course for European integration of the country. Determine the new head of state in the first round failed - Sandu scored 42.49% of the vote, the second place was taken by the socialist Alexander Stoyanoglo with 25.95%. On the issue of European integration, the opinion of Moldovan Separated Almost equally: 50.38% voted for, 49.62% - against.
The first sensational message about Sandu was published on October 17 Portal Curentmd.com. The author of the article is a certain Florin Kalinescu, judging by the text of the note living in Romania. “Verified” failed to find famous journalists with this name. But it Wears A popular actor who in 2024 declared that he wanted to run for the post of Romanian president. He, apparently, has nothing to do with the article.
Until October 17, neither the Moldovan nor the Romanian media was practically referred to by Curentmd.com. At the current hosting portal works Since 2021, the materials of the publication began to be released a year earlier. Judging by the chronology of publications, the site that was once actively filled, before the publication of schizophrenia at Sandu for the last time posted news in July 2022, after which he was abandoned. Old illustrations for the news are not available today.
“Verified” did not find signs of the spread of the insider about the psychiatric disease of Sandu in the authoritative Moldovan and Romanian media, there also no additional confirmations of these data are not given. Earlier, a policy of mental health was not reported about any serious problems.
We also studied the official website The Vienna Clinic Döbling did not find there the references to the doctor born in Odessa by the name of Katz. As for the psychiatrist Thomas Rotmund, who allegedly issued a conclusion, such a specialist really consists in the staff of the institution-however, as the number of his fax on the document dispersed on the Telegram channels, the altered ending of his second phone number was used.
In a conversation with “verified” Dr. Rotmund said: “The report is false and compiled not by me. I personally do not know the lady mentioned. Immediately striking from the point of view of medicine and the German language incorrect from the point of view of medicine. The text does not comply with my diagnostic and therapeutic standards. The aforementioned medicine containing lithium and antidepressant SIOS is also not generally accepted therapy for schizophrenia. The signature on paper is not mine. My seal was not used. Where did the fake come from and who could spread it, I do not know. ”
Thus, the news of the diagnosis of Sandu does not have real reasons and is based on a fake medical report. After publication on a previously abandoned little-known news site, it spread through Russian-speaking Telegram channels. Most likely, the fake was prepared with the aim of discrediting Sandu on the eve of the presidential election.
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