On the question of medicine and medical care after decades
of communism which ended officially with the Revolution of December 1989,
Brenciu explained that Romania now produces doctors on a “conveyor belt.” He admits
that a good doctor is not made by textbook theory learned in school, but is born
after years of residency training, specializing, and real life experience in the
ER of a hospital.
The tragedy starts, he said, when the young resident is
thrown in the midst of the hospital drama and realizes that he himself has
become a social case, a victim of starvation on his meager income. While a
nurse in the European Union, which Romania is a member of, earns about 6,500
lei (1,500 euros) per month, a doctor in Romania earns 1,500 lei per month, approximately
four times less.
Under socialism/communism, people walked around the medical
professionals with money in envelopes. Extra
cash for expected bribes sped up test results, X-rays, helped jump waiting
lines, and gave patients extra much-needed and speedier medical attention,
prevented infections, and perhaps insured survivability. Doctors accepted the
bribes because their pay was so low. Everyone earned equal pay and experienced
the same miserable standard of living, regardless of years of training, effort,
and education.
Overcoming the problems associated with decades of totalitarian
socialism/communism has not been easy. Accepting bribes and corruption across
the board are still the norm. Even though medical care is socialized and free,
people still pay doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel in order to expedite
their tests, care, and treatment. There are private clinics but fees are potentially
higher than the bribes.
Under such low current pay and demoralizing conditions, it
is no surprise that a chronic crisis of medical personnel overwhelms the
recovery system and the establishment of well-organized and timely health care.
And the government in Bucharest does not seem to make much difference since the
“command buttons are in Brussels.” The Romanians’ plans for the future do not
seem to coincide with the plans of the technocrats from Brussels, added Brenciu.
Dr. Arafat, a naturalized Romanian, organized what most
considered an exceptional service that was highly necessary in the medical
chaos – SMURD, an acronym for the Emergency Medical Services in Romania. This
service is a model of organization, efficiency, and necessity.
On the question of the Muslim invasion of Europe, Brenciu
admitted that the Old Continent is finding itself again in the unenvied
position of battlefield for the clash of civilizations. “Angela Merkel was not
afraid to receive in the beautiful, liberal, and multicultural Germany one
million Islamists, of which at least 5% could be terrorists with proper papers.”
Brenciu added that the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington
brought attention to this inevitable phenomenon for the European society. The
clash of civilization is a post-Cold War era hypothesis that supports the idea
that people’s cultural and religious identities will be a major source of
conflict. Huntington proposed this idea in a 1992 lecture at the American
Enterprise Institute. Huntington later
expanded his thesis in a 1996 book The Clash of Civilizations and the
Remaking of World Order.
Setting aside the humanitarian aspect of this invasion and
petitions for political and economic asylum, Brenciu believes that “accepting
to be invaded in good conscience by cohorts of people with foreign traditions,
culture, schooling, and especially religion, by hundreds of thousands of
individuals terrorized by war, poverty, and the devastating and merciless Islamism,
seems to be a form of madness bordering on treason.”
In his opinion, Angela Merkel, with her exaggerated and
programmed tolerance for the refugees of Islam, will compromise the European
Union, which will fold in the face of huge pressure of the member states,
forced to accept unwillingly thousands and thousands of hungry, lawless, and
savage refugees. Additionally, Germany will be gripped by national despair.
What will Merkel do to “attenuate the fantastic pressure of
this human ballast which materialized suddenly and without logic?” She will
probably “force the small states of Central and Eastern Europe, EU members, to
receive a large portion of these unfortunate “impoverished” who paid heavy fees
[where did they get so much money, he wonders] to cross many borders and
thousands of kilometers to come to the Promised Land, Germany.”
Romania was asked initially to accept two thousand
immigrants but President Johannis negotiated later to accept forty-five hundred.
Following the visit of the “technocrat premier Ciolos in Germany in January
2016, we must now think of a number of refugees much, much larger, a number
that will likely be either secret or falsified publicly.”
What shocks Brenciu is that, despite the sacrifices
Romanians have made across the centuries to preserve the “Christian spirit,
they are now infected quietly by Islam in unknown proportions by the very
European institutions which should have defended Christianity and the doctrine
of a free and democratic Europe.”
Brenciu did not speak in a discriminatory vein; he referred to the Islamic world that must respect its geographic boundaries and
the boundaries, cultures, lands, human rights, and religions of other peoples.
TO BE CONTINUED
