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Last Tuesday, a 77-year-old patient was brought to the KUK by an ambulance helicopter due to an aortic rupture and underwent surgery. The main doctor who conducted the procedure was said to have turned himself in to an assistant doctor and left the hospital during a critical phase of the operation. The patient died after difficulties with the operation. The doctor only returned after three quarters of an hour and realized that the patient could no longer be saved, Waldenberger had confirmed the incident over the weekend.
Suspected negligent homicide
The KUK submitted a statement of the facts to the prosecutor on Sunday. There are suspicions of negligent homicide with a sentence of up to one year in prison or even grossly negligent homicide (up to three years). “To ensure full transparency, we work intensively with investigative authorities and have already submitted all necessary documents for a legal evaluation by the prosecutor,” Waldenberger emphasized in Monday’s press release. Furthermore, assignment to the external expert remains the best possible clarification of the circumstances.
Meanwhile, the Linz City Health Supervision has begun its examination. Intervention. For Mayor Klaus Luger (SPÖ), the focus is also on the private practice of hospital doctors. The patient advocate strongly criticized the behavior of the main doctor. Luger announced Monday that he would commission the Health Authority, located at the Linz Magistrate, to carry out an investigation. “In addition to a full education, it is particularly important to me that the right lessons are drawn for the future. Because this case has rocked the confidence of the population at the Kepler University Clinic.”
General system questions
Therefore, special attention will be paid to the “rumored connection with the private order of the physician”. “It makes sense to transparently disclose the extent to which private practices are operated by hospital doctors in general,” Luger also raises general questions about the system. The health supervision is already preparing the test catalog.
“Deadly sin in health care”
Patient advocates spokesman Gerald Bachinger also criticized the informal handling of the private ordinances of hospital doctors: calling it “ZiB2” on Sunday as a “deadly sin in a law-based public health system public, “if one” their obligation is one by one certain patients, they step aside and leave the hospital to continue working in the private sphere. ” Patient attorneys would view it with great concern “if the control here is not very tight and some high-ranking physicians with a wink can perform such private activities,” Bachinger said.
(Source: APA)
