The president of the Supreme Medical Council, Łukasz Jankowski, has announced that preparations are underway to submit a motion to the Supreme Medical Court to suspend Dawid Kacprzyk’s licence to practise medicine. “We will press for the court to examine this case as quickly as possible,” Jankowski stressed.
Yesterday evening, in an interview on Kanał Zero, a former employee of Southern Hospital, Dr Emil Jędrzejewski, said, among other things, that medical procedures in the hospital’s emergency department had been performed improperly, resulting in complications which, in some cases, allegedly ended in patients’ deaths.
The interview with Dr Emil Jędrzejewski follows reports by the Zero.pl portal, according to which Dr Dawid Kacprzyk, the now-former head coordinator of the emergency department at Southern Hospital and a former Civic Coalition councillor in Warsaw’s Ursus district, allegedly earned PLN 1.6 million last year while completing his specialisation in anaesthesiology. Politicians from the Civic Coalition were also allegedly admitted without waiting in line to a “VIP lounge” at the department he managed.
Dr Jędrzejewski appeared today at the Warsaw Regional Prosecutor’s Office, where he handed investigators a note containing the names of two patients who had allegedly been harmed. He did not give testimony, as he was unable to take part in questioning in the presence of an attorney.
Will Kacprzyk be suspended?
The president of the Supreme Medical Council said that the suspension of the licence to practise medicine would remain in force until prosecutors clarify the case involving the doctor. “Each of the allegations must be clarified, and with patient safety as our top priority, we cannot allow such incidents to continue to occur,” Jankowski said.
He added that, several days ago, the Supreme Medical Chamber had launched proceedings “concerning a politician-doctor who was alleged to have committed acts incompatible with the medical profession and threatening the safety, health and lives of patients.”
“We are devastated by what may have happened to patients and by what resulted from the intertwining of politics and medicine,”
he said.
Jankowski also noted that he remains in contact with the Professional Liability Officer, who is analysing the collected material with a view to filing a motion to suspend the doctor’s licence to practise.