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THE HEAD OF the German doctors’ lobby and politicians today called for swift action to root out corruption following a scandal over preferential treatment for organ transplants.
The president of the German Medical Association, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, said physicians taking bribes in life-or-death cases would shatter the hard-earned faith that Germans have in them.
“Transplant doctors who still don’t understand that they are destroying their own field with cheating and manipulation should get out of the profession,” he told the daily Passauer Neue Presse.
Montgomery added that “all means available under criminal and professional law should be used” to bring corrupt doctors to justice.
His comments came after irregularities emerged at a transplant centre in the eastern city of Leipzig.
People wrongly registered as dialysis patients
The clinic said that between 2010 and 2012, 38 people were wrongly registered as dialysis patients so that they would be given a higher priority on waiting lists for a liver transplant.
It could not rule out that “money had changed hands” in exchange.
The head of the clinic as well as two senior doctors have been given a leave of absence while the institution conducts an internal probe. Public prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation.
The affair follows revelations in 2012 that other German hospitals engaged in dubious practices with organ transplants, prompting an independent commission to launch a sweeping review.
The Leipzig cases emerged in the course of that inquiry.
The chief health policy spokesman of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, Jens Spahn, urged root-and-branch reform of the organ transplant system, echoing calls by other parties.
“Manipulation to get certain patients higher on waiting lists could mean a death sentence for other patients who have a more urgent need for an organ,” he told the daily Rheinische Post.
Such practices must be “decisively outlawed, punished and stopped for all time”.
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1 month ago Antonis cries out in parliament “Georgie, youre sellin out our sovereignty”
George “on yer bike anto”
a few days ago
george “quit ur shit anto or im gonna cry referendum”
anto “u wouldnt dare georgie”
referendum said georgie
anto “de balls on ya georgie. ok, heres de deal me aul dormitory pal. clearly de scum cant decide this. so, u cancel the empty threat,,jesus georgie we didnt think ud go so far…make way for me, ill back up the bailout..well u knew my real take on that anyway…and you go on to head up a chairmanships, like our brother bertie ahern… he’s well placed now georgie to make a right killin for himself. landed chairman for the international forestry fund, so when irelands forests come up for sale, he has all the old connections to make it happen…. anyway georgie, who am i tellin, sure u know the score…
Blah blah blah……just turn on the printing presses, flood the place with money, get 15% to 20% inflation going and these debts will feel like small change
Yeh the Germans will jump at that one alright
NEDISY (Fina Fail of Greece) wrecked the country and George and his party are under the wreck now…
We have a really good guy with figures maybe he could help grease. Bertie may not have had a bank account and lived in a bedsit but he apparently was well qualified according to the cert he produced. I think it was one of the FAS Certs for accountancy that we’re given out by some relative of the board member of FAS who was appointed by FF. anyway he is available for a brown envelope.
How pathetic is is that every conversation gets turned around to include Bertie,
We also have another guy called Cardiff who would love to help with the bad figures in Greece. He can count it to 10 don’t let him near millions and certainly not billions as he gets confused – all that said we promoted him and look how well we are now doing.
It’s actually ‘Karolos Padoulias’ not ‘Caralos’. :)
Oops, my mistake. Thanks Evan!
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