Two policemen and an expert entered the Stefan Żeromski Specialist Hospital in Krakow on Monday. TVN24 revealed a recording showing a doctor connected to a drip while admitting patients. He allegedly took highly addictive substances. The prosecutor’s office talks regarding the “multi-faceted and complex nature of the investigation.”
Specialist Hospital named following Stefan Żeromski in Krakow is one of the largest medical centers in Małopolska. Journalist Mateusz Kudła, in a TVN24 report, revealed information regarding irregularities that might have occurred in the facility in connection with disappearing narcotic drugs and a doctor administering drugs to his drip while admitting patients.
The reporter found a recording in which one of the emergency department employees, while on duty, orders an intern to inject medicine into the drip to which he is connected. According to our informants, the ampoule contained very dangerous and highly addictive fentanyl.
“Will you go get me some ampoules?” What did the doctor on duty take? Mateusz Kudła
Żeromski Hospital in KrakówTVN24
The police and an expert entered the hospital
The case was handled by the Krakow prosecutor’s office. An investigation is underway in connection with the Act on Counteracting Drug Addiction. Hospital employees are called as witnesses.
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As Mateusz Kudła found out, on Monday he was taken to the hospital. Stefan Żeromski in Krakow was entered – at the request of the Krakow prosecutor’s office – by two policemen and an expert. They secured paper and electronic documentation of the Hospital Emergency Department. This is related to the ongoing investigation. The information was confirmed by prosecutor Janusz Kowalski, spokesman for the District Prosecutor’s Office in Kraków.
Prosecutor: investigators are examining the entire operation of the hospital
On Tuesday, Kowalski told TVN24 reporter Mateusz Pół Chłopek that the proceedings are being conducted under Article 64, section 1 of the Act on Counteracting Drug Addiction, which concerns the “appropriation of narcotic drugs” found on the hospital premises. It is a crime punishable by imprisonment from three months to five years.
Prosecutor on the investigation into the doctor of the Żeromski hospital in KrakowTVN24
The spokesman for the District Prosecutor’s Office in Krakow informed that so far, among others, the reporting persons had been questioned. The hospital director has not yet been questioned. – The subject of the proceedings will be the entire functioning of the hospital in the field of trade in drugs and agents that were used to relieve patients’ pain, in this case the distribution of morphine. The investigation is multi-faceted and complex. It is difficult to determine all the threads that may arise in these proceedings, the prosecutor noted.
Source of main photo: TVN24
