Dirty premises and medicines from earthquake disaster • IVO: “Danger for life”
The clinic has existed for around 20 years and mainly performs circumcisions, mainly of small children. During inspections, the Inspectorate for Care and Care (IVO) has found a long list of deficiencies, so serious that patients’ lives are at risk.
Now IVO is closing the clinic with immediate effect.
Children risk breathing difficulties
It is about poor equipment, lack of hygiene and dangerous drug handling.
Among other things, the clinic has used medicines that can be dangerous for children and cause breathing difficulties, without having the capacity to save a child’s life if something goes wrong. There has been a lack of adequate resuscitation equipment.
The premises have also been dirty and the clinic has neglected to keep instruments sterile. The business has completely lacked written hygiene routines.
Medicines from the earthquake in Turkey
In addition, IVO has found a cabinet filled with medicines that have passed their best before date, and several unlabelled medicines. IVO states that it can be life-threatening if children receive the wrong medicine, or a medicine that has gone bad.
“In the health care provider’s opinion on the inspection protocol, it is stated, among other things, that some medicines are the business manager’s private and some medicines were collected in connection with an earthquake in Northern Syria and Turkey in 2022,” the decision states.
The doctor, who runs the clinic, has previously been under investigation, and was on a three-year probationary period (HSAN). This after several circumcised children received medication that caused breathing difficulties and lack of oxygen, and had to seek emergency care.
Link to the Muslim Brotherhood
The same doctor has been rewritten for his role in criticized Muslim independent schools and preschools. According to sources at the research company Acta Publica, the man has connections to the Sunni Muslim political organization Muslim Brotherhood, writes news agency Sirén.
He was previously on the board of the company that ran the criticized Muslim independent school Römosseskolan, which was closed in 2022. He was also a school doctor there, writes Sirén.