After about two and a half years, the Public Prosecution Service for Economic Affairs and Corruption (WKStA) dropped its investigation against Viennese thoracic surgeon Walter Klepetko over allegations of lung transplants for foreign patients, senior prosecutor Elisabeth Täubl, spokeswoman for the WKStA, said in a statement. Thursday. The attitude was “due to lack of verifiability” of the allegations.
The internationally renowned top doctor, who also implanted a donor lung with ex-Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda at AKH/MedUni Vienna, was faced with serious, anonymous accusations in the fall of 2019, according to a media report. Specifically, it concerned a 47-year-old Greek woman who would have been put on the waiting list for a lung transplant for money.
“plot” against Klepetko
According to the WKStA, the surveys “did not reveal any evidence of criminal behavior, let alone the allegations in the anonymous submissions,” the “profile” reported online. The rector of the Medical University of Vienna, Markus Müller, spoke to the magazine about a “plot” against Klepetko that had long been prepared and aimed to “personally deny” a world-renowned surgeon.
“No Evidence of Systematic Errors”
An audit committee set up by MedUni Vienna and AKH found “no indications of systematic errors” as early as March 2020. It was said at the time that there was no manipulation or discrimination against Austrian patients. Klepetko and his team, who had built one of the largest lung transplant programs in the world over three decades at the University Clinic of Surgery in Vienna, had previously gained the full trust of the transplant advisory board and patient associations.
Source: Krone
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