Surgeon Fired Over “Gratitude Money” In Budapest
- 25 Jun 2013 9:00 AM
The Péterfy Sándor utca hospital in Budapest’s Seventh District is firing a surgeon suspected of accepting “gratitude money”, Népszabadság reports. Hospital director Dr. Antal Sásdi told the newspaper that a hospital commission heard testimony from a patient and the doctor last Thursday.
Although it could not be definitively proven whether the doctor had demanded money, the management decided to terminate his contract, effective June 30.
The patient claimed in a letter to Sásdi last week that the patient gave Ft 10,000 to the doctor in gratitude after an operation.
The doctor allegedly called the patient out of the ward and said the patient could not be serious, saying “we could drink that in two minutes with two friends of mine”.
Staff director Dr. Miklós Szokoly said such a large institution cannot afford to be under a pall of suspicion.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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