Adelsmayr head of the hospital in Schwarzach from October
Health
On October 10th, the anesthetist Eugen Adelsmayr will become the new medical director of the Cardinal Schwarzenberg Clinic in Schwarzach (Pongau). It is the second largest hospital in the state. The Upper Austrian has had no connection to the clinic so far.
Adelsmayr, who most recently worked in private clinics, is to concentrate exclusively on managing all primaries, the medical and organizational development of the medical service and cross-professional cooperation in the clinic in Schwarzach. “With his appointment, we are deliberately and probably separating the previously customary personal union of the medical director with a primariate,” says hospital managing director Cornelia Lindner.
Doctors rehabilitated in Austria
Adelsmayr comes from Bad Ischl (Upper Austria) and completed his specialist training in Vienna, Bad Ischl and Innsbruck. After studying in the USA, he held managerial positions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 2005 to 2011. The doctor made headlines there when he was accused of having caused the death of a paraplegic patient in Dubai in January 2009 by taking too high a dose of morphine and failing to provide assistance. Adelsmayr always rejected the allegations.
In October 2012, the doctor was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in a trial that was sometimes questionable by observers. However, the verdict did not become final because the doctor no longer registered in Dubai. Parallel investigations in Austria were discontinued at the beginning of 2014, and the European Court of Justice made it clear in 2017 that the doctor may not be extradited from an EU member state to the UAE.
200,000 patients per year from Germany and abroad
The Order Hospital of the Sisters of Mercy in Schwarzach, which has been in existence for over 175 years, is the second largest hospital in the province of Salzburg with over 500 beds, 15 primaries, 50 outpatient clinics and over 200 doctors. Around 200,000 patients from Germany and abroad are treated every year, 30,000 of them are treated as inpatients.