Doctors refuse heart disease type surgery – because the parents are unvaccinated

A three-year-old boy from Cyprus was caused to have a serious heart condition. Attempts were made to treat him in his home country. But the hospitals there lacked the necessary equipment for a rescue operation. The Cypriot Ministry of Health finally arranged an appointment for an operation in Germany, reports “Politically“.

But contrary to plan, the Frankfurt hospital refused the operation one day before the treatment. The reason was the lack of corona vaccination of the parents.

There is no law that requires doctors to turn away unvaccinated people. However, each hospital would have its own right to decide who should receive treatment, according to a spokeswoman for the European Commission’s Health Office.

Children with heart disease are not allowed to be operated on in Germany

In order to enable the boy to be treated anyway, the Cyprus authorities then repeated to hospitals in England and Israel, but without success. Although the parents had themselves vaccinated shortly after the cancellations, the waiting time of weeks still had to be observed in order to be treated in the state hospitals. And the little boy had no time for that.

“I know that unvaccinated patients can be treated in German hospitals,” said the boy’s father. “I didn’t know that I too had to be vaccinated in order for my species to be treated. If I had known, I would have done it immediately. But I’m healthy and didn’t want to get vaccinated.”

Moral conflict: Should doctors turn away unvaccinated people?

The health authorities in Cyprus then confirmed that they had informed the parents early enough about the necessary vaccination.

But there is a happy ending. The boy can now be operated on in a private hospital in Greece. The case raises the moral question of whether doctors should turn away unvaccinated individuals.