Bizarre case in Hungarian hospital: chief doctors dismissed

Irregularities have occurred in the pathology department of the Péterfy Sándor Street Hospital – Outpatient Clinic in Budapest. For this reason, the acting head of the health institution terminated the employment of the hospital’s autopsy master and autopsy assistant.

According to a statement by the National Directorate General for Hospitals, two bodies were found in the pathology department of the institution in undignified conditions and not recorded in the register of deaths. As a consequence, the acting head of the Péterfy Sándor Street Hospital – Outpatient Clinic in Budapest terminated the employment of the hospital’s autopsy master and autopsy assistant on 31 August 2023, napi.hu reports.

The directorate also added that the head of the institution, Zoltán Kökény, has ordered an internal investigation and filed a police report in order to fully clarify the circumstances of the professional irregularity. The Péterfy Sándor Street Hospital and the National Directorate General for Hospitals will not provide any further information on the case until the professional investigation is completed, they added.

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