The oncology clinic keeps its patients who died at home alive
The oncology clinic treats patients who were once treated there and then died at home as alive, "Sloboden Pechat" learned from its well-informed hospital sources.
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The Oncology Clinic has two systems - "My term" and "ULTRA". In none of them is the death of patients who were hospitalized and then released for home treatment. In other words, if the patient died at home, there is no way for the hospital to know and mislead him.
- We have no information about them that they died and when, unless someone from the family comes to return some of the medicines as a donation to the pharmacy, so let us know. In the hospital's system, no one says that he died if he died at home, says our source from the Oncology Clinic.
ULTRA is the Oncology Clinic's patient management system, which is separate from My Term. Each doctor has an entry in it. Examinations are scheduled through "My appointment", and therapy and patient reports are made in ULTRA. In this system, it is recorded what medicine each patient received. It tracks the delivery of the medicine from the department to the pharmacy and it is there that the dates of the patient's examinations are recorded.
- Only if you read the discharged list of the patient, from the last data entered there, you can see that he was sent for home treatment, or when he was last examined. But if the patient is discharged from the hospital and dies at home, ULTRA will not know that. He stands like a patient whose last examination was a long time ago. The stories are on the counter. If he is released at home, it will be written that "in agreement with the family, the patient is discharged for home treatment in a serious general condition". A terminal patient is discharged in severe general condition and can be given home therapy. And then, we don't know if and when he died - says our source, an employee of the Oncology Clinic.
This system is very important for the investigation conducted by the Public Prosecutor's Office. "Free Press" has knowledge and proof of a patient who died in 2014, and in 2022 another patient diagnosed with cancer begins to be treated in his file at ULTRA. The cancer in 2022 is a different kind when compared to the cancer in 2014 that the first patient who died had. Who was treated in the file of a deceased patient?! According to our knowledge, the expert reports of the Prosecutor's Office will also refer to this aspect. In the internal, ULTRA system of the Oncology Clinic, were treated patients unjustifiably kept in the files of patients who died and why?
"For patients who were patients at the clinic during a given period, and then died outside the clinic, most of the time we as an institution do not receive the information about their death nor the exact date. Therefore, for such patients, our electronic patient database is missing the relevant patient death data. According to the death of such a deceased patient, there are no new current examinations, but the last examination performed while the patient is alive remains in the electronic database. For patients who die in the clinic, there is proper documentation and data on the death," the Oncology Clinic told "Sloboden Pechat".
On November 3, 2022, the newly appointed director of the Oncology Clinic, Dr. Violeta Klisarovska, prohibited a counter worker from creating referrals, due to suspicion that he created a referral for a close family member for a five scan priority. The pharmacist from the hospital pharmacy is on trial for accepting a bribe. He asked the patient Minka Veizoska for a bribe of 100 euros to give her the biological therapy that she would have to receive. With recorded money that the pharmacist received, he ended up being accused of accepting a bribe. From the testimony of the patient Veizoska, it became clear that that therapy (biological therapy Keytruda) was "hidden from her".
- Who am I to hide it from me? For what reason, why?, Veizoska told "Sloboden Pechat".
Her experience raises serious suspicions of influence peddling at the Oncology Clinic, that is, blackmailing patients into paying money to receive therapies.
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