When SVT began to review the private Amelie Clinic, about 300 patients had turned there with post -viral fatigue syndrome such as ME and Postcovid.
According to the National Board of Health and Welfare, there is no medicine that cures, and therefore patients should be treated through symptom relief. But at the Amelie Clinic, patients received a long line of medicines for a long time, including Valganciclovir, which is otherwise given to AIDS patients with eye infection.
Doctors warned
When SVT examined the clinic and its doctor Jonas Axelsson, other doctors warned of the medication:
“You use drugs that can be fatal,” said Christer Lidman, chief physician and specialist physician in infectious diseases at the postcovid reception at Karolinska Huddinge.
However, the vast majority of patients were satisfied with the treatment they received, despite the fact that SVT’s review showed that many described side effects in closed Facebook groups.
But two patients reported the clinic to IVO, Which newspaper etc Be the first to report. The patients who reported had been given a large number of medicines for a long time, felt bad and then found that they received the wrong diagnosis by the doctor.
The professor of infectious medicine consulted by IVO prior to the decisions on the cases assesses that care and investigation “exhibits extremely serious deficiencies”, and calls the handling of possible side effects “careless and defective”.
In its decision, IVO notes that Jonas Axelsson has made diagnoses without sufficient evidence, prescribed large amounts of drugs without taking into account any side effects and without the drugs being approved for patients’ diagnoses.
“The criticism is incorrect”
SVT has sought Jonas Axelsson for interview, but he only wants to leave a written comment. He writes that “the criticism is incorrect and a consequence of not all material being taken into account.”
Jonas Axelsson rejects the competence of the consulted professor and believes that IVO’s criticism is sometimes “directly against the recommendations in the National Board of Health’s guidelines for the treatment of the patient group”.
IVO maintains the conclusions and writes that the views that have come from Jonas Axelsson on the proposal for a decision do not change IVO’s position.
Some time after SVT’s review, the clinic closed, according to its own statement because there was no staff or financing anymore.