Doctor allegedly collected seriously ill patients

Prosecution charges charges of suspected fraud and corruption

08/06/2013

Not every physician is obviously more committed to the patient's well-being than to his own wallet. This is sadly clear also on the basis of the indictment, which was raised by the prosecutor Saarbrücken against a former senior physician of the university hospitals of the Saarland. The physician is said to have enriched the situation of seriously ill patients by, for example, only wanted to operate for cash payments.

The 54-year-old physician has now to answer for the criminal court of the district court on suspicion of fraud and corruption, reported the prosecutor Saarbrücken in a recent press release. It is accused the accused „In the years 2006 to 2010 in 21 cases of patients who wanted to be personally operated because of some acute life-threatening illnesses of him, four-digit cash amounts received or required (have), because he otherwise did not want to perform the operations.“ In addition, he had some patients also in the prospect that a previous surgery appointment against cash payments is possible, the prosecution.

Especially serious case of corruption?
Given the predicament of their patients and their concern for life and health, they would have made the required payments, which could result in a particularly harsh penalty for the chief physician. Because the civil servant doctor is a public official in the sense of the penal law and should the „In terms of cash, these acts have been considered by law to be particularly serious cases of corruption“, so the message of the prosecutor. (Fp)