Hospital managers must answer for firing critical senior doctors.

Hospital chiefs must answer questions after firing of critical senior doctors

Politicians want answers, among other things, on whether patients can still receive the right treatment.

Three highly specialized senior doctors are now gone from Rigshospitalet's Department of Transplantation and Diseases of the Digestive System, which is the only department in the country that can perform liver transplants. (Photo: © Ida Maria Hiitola Pedersen, DR) 55 minutes ago.

It has now become a political hot potato in the Capital Region that three critical senior doctors were first relieved of duty and are now leaving Rigshospitalet.

The hospital's management has been summoned to a meeting today to account for whether patients can still receive the right treatment.

This is according to Conservative regional council member Christoffer Buster Reinhardt, who chairs the region's health committee.

- I am concerned about whether there are a sufficient number of surgeons who can perform pediatric liver transplants. And I am concerned about whether the surgeons also have the right competencies, he says.

> Questions have been raised as to whether the sent letter of concern led to the suspension and later dismissal of the doctors

The three doctors worked in a department that is the only one in the country to perform liver transplants – among other things.

After two surgeons left the department earlier this year, five senior doctors wrote a letter to the hospital's management and to the Capital Region.

Read also: Nurses raise alarm after firing of surgeons at Rigshospitalet: 'We are deeply concerned for the patients' (https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/sygeplejersker-slaar-alarm-efter-fyring-af-kirurger-paa-rigshospitalet-vi-er-dybt-bekymrede)

They are concerned about patient safety and what they call an "acute staffing problem." They also sharply criticize the management style in the department.

Subsequently, three of the doctors were suspended, and now they are leaving Rigshospitalet.

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In a response to DR, the management writes that Rigshospitalet – even in the current situation – can stand by the treatment of patients. And that they are working to hire new specialists.

Christoffer Buster Reinhardt wants to get to the bottom of why the three doctors were relieved of duty.

- Questions have been raised as to whether the sent letter of concern led to the suspension and later dismissal of the doctors.

- We need to be assured that full freedom of speech naturally applies to public employees. Also at Rigshospitalet, he says.

Since the first letter of concern, nurses and other doctors from the department have also sent letters of concern to the management.

Rigshospitalet's executive board must account for the matter today at an extraordinary meeting at 9 a.m. in the Capital Region's executive committee.

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