Patients of the Nitra hospital, who confided in experts in 2019, also experienced a similar situation. It was in it that only two patients managed to completely eliminate the operation. the first doctor operated on the healthy knee of the athlete and former football player František Rapan, and as soon as the media pointed out the case, it turned out that this was not a single mistake. Just a few days before the operation, the doctors “made a mistake” during the operation of the patient’s knee, Karol Cigán.

“During my first operation in the morning, they exchanged something, some replacement, and then when I arrived, they operated on me again.” provide PLUS 1 DAY Karol Cigáň, who stated that he does not intend to complain to doctors.

František Rapan, mentioned above, also experienced the same shock after the operation. As his daughter Ruth said to her at the time his father played active football until he was 37 years old. He had long-term problems with his right knee. It was never left.

“After years of talking, when he was told that the knee was already in such a desolate condition, he was allowed to speak. He went to surgery and woke up with an operated leg that he had in order.” After the covert operation, František Rapan turned to the Office for the Supervision of Health Care and also to the court. “The injured party has referred the whole matter to court, and the litigation is still ongoing. We will not comment further on the ongoing litigation.” Tatiana Kubinec, a spokeswoman for the hospital, said about the mentioned case.

The head of medical departments, Peter Visolajský, who works at the University Hospital in Nitra on Facebook, stated that, according to him, several systemic errors were involved in the operation of the wrong knee.

“The patient and the doctor paid for the systemic errors. Politicians pushed the hospital to punish the doctor in an exemplary manner. The then prime minister called the hospital and demanded that the doctor be fired demonstratively. stated. “At the Ružinov hospital, the patients were removed by the wrong eye. The Slovak public is threatened and is once again demanding harsh punishment for the given operator,” he added and at the same time pointed out what we are allegedly doing wrong in Slovakia.

“If the system was addressed and not the individual, then after the case of the NR knee in a normal country with a normal Ministry of Health, systemic measures should be taken to reduce such errors in all hospitals, not only in Nitra under pressure from doctors. the tragedy at the Ružinov hospital would not have happened, “ continued in his status Visolajský. According to him in Slovakia, everyone with blood in their eyes solves the one who just paid for the system.

“But if we do not solve the system, it will not help patients and the same mistake will sooner or later be repeated and paid for only by another innocent patient (along with him and the paramedic). Slovakia should focus less on punishment for the individual and more on prevention.” It will really protect all patients. No healthcare professional wants to harm their patient, and even the harshest punishment for a doctor will no longer help the patient. ” said Peter Visolajský.

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