Facts
The Agenţia Naţională Anti-Doping (ANAD), the National Anti-Doping Agency of Romania, charged Tigirlas Victoria, the physician, for a violation of the anti-doping rules. Following a doping control conducted in competition on November 1, 2013, at a handball event in Braila, the analytical result of the athlete Irimia Raluca Ionela sample, indicated the presence of the prohibited substance dexamethasone.
History
The athlete received treatment for a shoulder pain for which her phycisian prescribed a local and general non-steroid anti-inflammatory treatment, ice bags and, when necessary (if the pain persists), Ketonal and Dexamethasone, intravenously. The treatment was administered to her by the sport club’s physician, Tigirlas Victoria. However the day before the match the club's physician injected her with dexamethasone. The athlete demonstrated how the prohibited substance entered her body, through the fact that the physician Tigirlas Victoria administered to her the prohibited substance although she had other allowed therapeutic alternatives or ways of administration of the same substance, which are not prohibited. The athlete had been sanctioned with a period of ineligibility of one month.
Decision
- The physician was sanctioned with a period of ineligibility of four years based on the ruling towards the administration of a prohibited substance to an athlete.
- The decision starts from the date of the decision, respectively January 23, 2014 and shall end on January 22, 2018.
- The decision will be sent to the parties involved.
