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The head doctor of the Sahlgrenska University Hospital was fired and reported to the Swedish Health and Care Inspectorate, Ivo, as a risk to patient safety, as DN previously reported.
The reason: according to his boss, the person went to work for two days “despite obvious symptoms that could be compatible with covid-19.”
“The employer’s trust in the employee is seriously damaged, so we decided to resign,” he says in the report to Ivo.
According to the manager, the chief physician should have He was asked to come home from work and lulled his colleagues with false assurance when the person said they had antibodies without having been tested. However, the doctor denies it.
So, 13 people must have gotten sick with covid-19: a patient, two relatives and the rest of the staff. Although it is very difficult to determine where the infection is coming from, only one of them could indicate another potential source of infection, it says in the report. The manager believes that it is not about how many or if someone has been infected by the doctor, but that they have not shown understanding for having acted incorrectly.
The same chief physician denies it allegations and claims of having been affected by a respiratory infection one day without fever or other covid symptoms and had no patient contacts at the time. The person says he went home after a short meeting the next day after feeling worse and that two colleagues had the same symptoms. A few days later, the chief physician tested positive.
“There is no place where, in the middle of a fiery pandemic, one can derive the infection from me. I see this as a serious intrusion “, writes the chief doctor in an SMS to DN.
The person wants to get his back back service and contacted the Swedish Medical Association.
– We never comment on ongoing personal matters. This has sparked enormous interest in the media, but for us it is an individual matter where we follow our usual routines, says Ilja Laesser from the local association of the Swedish Medical Association.
Sahlgrenska has previously said that they cannot comment on an ongoing individual and staff matter.
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Head doctor went to work despite covid symptoms – fired
