Shortly after, Condrea is killed in a car crash. Tolontan asks about the 95 percent effectiveness previously claimed by the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry responds by refusing to comment on their previous claim. The government announces at a press conference that they have tested the Hexi Pharma products and found the solutions were all diluted. Consequently, the Minister of Health resigns and a criminal investigation begins against the CEO of Hexi Pharma, Dan Condrea. The Gazette publishes the story, and mass protests continue over the corruption and lack of proper healthcare protection. The journalists push further and find a source that confirms that the intelligence service has known for years that bacterial infections were killing people but did nothing. #COLLECTIVE DOCUMENTARY TV#When Cătălin Tolontan, a journalist from the Gazette, goes on TV to discuss the investigation, the Minister of Health dismisses the journalist's insistence for facts and evidence and states that governmental testing showed that the disinfectant solutions were 95 percent effective. The Minister of Health, Patriciu Achimaș-Cadariu, orders an investigation. The story also reveals that the government failed to properly verify the supplier and its products. Testing confirms this, and the journalists subsequently publish a hard-hitting story about the supplier, Hexi Pharma, and how it falsified the documentation for the supplied disinfectants. Journalists begin investigating the mismanagement of healthcare by public hospitals after sources inform them that the disinfectants used at public hospitals are diluted. Over the following months 37 more victims die, partially due to the lack of proper healthcare at the public hospitals. On Octoin Bucharest, Romania, metal band Goodbye to Gravity is performing a concert in a club called Colectiv pyrotechnics cause a a fire to break out and quickly engulf the club, immediately killing 27 people and injuring 180. It was nominated at the 93rd Academy Awards for the Best Documentary Feature and Best International Feature Film categories, becoming the first Romanian film to be nominated for an Academy Award. It received acclaim from critics, as well as many accolades, including from the European Film Awards and the National Society of Film Critics. The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on 4 September 2019, and was released in Romania on 28 February 2020, and on 20 November 2020 in other countries, including the UK and USA. The film follows dual stories of investigative journalists at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor uncovering public healthcare corruption and maladministration, and the government's response to the crisis at the Ministry of Health. The film centers on the 2016 public health scandal following the Colectiv nightclub fire. Collective ( Romanian: Colectiv, also known as Collective: Unravelling a Scandal) is a 2019 Romanian documentary film directed, written, produced and edited by Alexander Nanau.
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