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Plastic surgeon Husham al-Wasty, 48, has a long history of criticized procedures behind his back. One of his patients almost died.
His Svea Private Hospital clinic in Södertälje has already been closed.
– There was something with the detailed plan. We have a hospital we will move to in Vårberg now, says al-Wasty.
On Thursday, the municipality banned the operation of the Svea Private Hospital, which is owned by Husham al-Wasty and his wife, as the business was conducted in an office and did not have a building permit.
– There were garbage bags everywhere, it was not cleaned and there was dried blood on the operating table, says Police Inspector Britt Marie Talonpoika.
At the same time, the clinic’s X-ray equipment was seized as it lacks permission.
– We have participated in the police effort. X-ray machine equipment requires a permit according to the Radiological Protection Act, says Caroline Falkengren, press secretary for the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority.
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X-ray equipment seized from Svea Private Hospital.
In addition to the police, the municipality and the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority, Ivo, the Swedish Work Environment Authority, the Swedish Revenue Agency and the Swedish Enforcement Agency also participated in the joint inspection on Thursday.
Husham al-Wasty previously headed the Swedish Surgical Consultation Center at Östermalm in Stockholm. There, surgical activity was banned by Ivo, the Swedish Health and Care Inspectorate, in May 2016, after a patient nearly died after an operation.
Then the company moved to Skärholmen and later to Södertälje.
Photo: ANDREAS BARDELL
The website indicates that the clinic will move to another location.
Following the closure of the Svea Private Hospital in Södertälje on Thursday, al-Wasty has already posted a message on the clinic’s website:
“The clinic will move to other places that have better communication and are adapted for care. The address will come soon. “
Husham al-Wasty received an Iraqi medical ID in 1996, a Swedish medical ID in 2010, and a surgical specialist degree in 2011. He also claims that he is a plastic surgeon trained in Iraq, but not in Sweden.
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Husham al-Wasty.
The 48-year-old doctor has been criticized seven times by the Swedish Health and Care Inspectorate, Ivo and his company three times. The most serious incident, in which a patient nearly died after an operation in January 2016, not only led to the closure of al-Wasty operations at Östermalm in Stockholm. In March 2020, he was also convicted of the operation in the Stockholm District Court.
The crime classification was causing bodily injury and illness, a felony. He was sentenced to probation with community service 140 hours. The verdict has been appealed.
“Lacks competition”
When Gunnar Kratz, a professor of plastic surgery, examined al-Wasty on Ivo’s behalf in 2015, his conclusion was:
“The doctor in question lacks the necessary experience in the field of plastic surgery and, therefore, for most of the procedures that he has performed on the patients in question.”
Ivo has so far not judged al-Wasty’s mistakes to be so serious that he risked his medical identification. The fact that he was able to open new businesses after the Östermalm closure is due to the fact that the ban applied to the clinic, not the owner.
Photo: ANDREAS BARDELL
According to the police, the room was not cleaned and there were traces of blood on the operating table.
Live in a million dollar villa
Husham al-Wasty reported income from employment of SEK 22,750 in 2019. At the same time, he and his wife own a 196-square-meter villa in Skärholmen, which they bought for SEK 8.6 million in 2013.
Husham al-Wasty comments on the fact that he did not have a building permit for the business:
– There was something with the detailed plan. We have a hospital that we are moving to in Vårberg now.
Why were there garbage bags on the premises?
– We are closed for holidays.
Why was it not cleaned?
– Yes, we weren’t at the place.
Also, was your X-ray equipment seized?
– We have not used X-rays, it is out of order.
Have you been criticized seven times by Ivo?
– It has only tried to keep records, it did not focus on my abilities.
Well, in March 2016, he treated a patient even though there was “no indication for the procedure” and received criticism for it.
– No, it wasn’t like that. They have criticized record keeping.
Well, they criticized that there were no signs.
– No, that’s not true.
He has been convicted in district court of causing bodily injury and illness, a felony.
– Yes, but we have appealed. The district court ruling has no solid evidence. We have great evidence, the shortcomings were not on our side. They come from other caregivers.
Ivo also says about an operation in October 2015 that the procedure was performed with “poor operating technology.”
– It was a patient who then complained of pain. But that does not mean any criticism of my professional competence.
– You cannot stop all surgeons who have had a complication here or there. This would mean that no one can continue working, there is no private clinic that does not have a complaint with Ivo.
Do you think it is reasonable that you receive comments?
– The complication is part of the care process.
So future patients who come to you can trust your knowledge?
– Absolutely. I’m just waiting for the Court of Appeals to acquit me and sue all the newspapers that have written badly about me, says Husham al-Wasty.
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