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Swedish Pediatric Cardiologist Surrenders License, Avoiding Further Review

From Dagens Nyheter · () Swedish

Translated from Swedish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

News Named sources Outcome reported
  • A pediatric cardiologist wrongly declared more than 100 children healthy and has been linked to the death of an infant in 2021.
  • Sweden’s Health and Social Care Responsibility Board revoked his license at his own request, which ends the ongoing inspection by the care watchdog IVO once the decision becomes final.
  • Parents criticized the outcome, while the doctor has resigned from his Lund post and moved to Britain.

A Swedish pediatric cardiologist who wrongly declared more than 100 children healthy has surrendered his medical license, bringing an unfinished inspection by the country’s care watchdog to an end.

The doctor worked at Ryhov County Hospital in Jönköping, where he gave healthy children incorrect diagnoses and failed to identify illness in other cases. He has also been linked to the death of an infant in 2021, when he departed from treatment procedures and increased a medication too quickly.

It is so unfair.

· Jennie SejdhageThe mother of an affected child reacted to the doctor’s license revocation.

The Health and Social Care Responsibility Board revoked the license at the doctor’s own request, according to Dagens Medicin. The Inspectorate for Health and Care, known as IVO, had already opened an investigation. Its conclusion will be dropped after the board’s decision becomes legally final. IVO press chief Christer Jansson said the agency would then close the individual case.

He is probably doing this to get away from it. It is so unfair. Our children have struggled for many years because of him, but he is fleeing from this. We are getting no answers anywhere.

· Jennie SejdhageShe criticized the voluntary surrender of the license and the end of the IVO review.

The decision has angered parents whose children received incorrect assurances or missed treatment. Jennie Sejdhage said her son Oliver was wrongly declared healthy twice and waited years for proper heart care. He eventually underwent heart surgery in 2023. “He is probably doing this to get away from it. It is so unfair. Our children have struggled for many years because of him, but he is fleeing from this. We are getting no answers anywhere,” she said.

The doctor resigned from his position at Skåne University Hospital in Lund and has moved to Britain. Swedish authorities will notify authorities across the European Economic Area and Switzerland about the license revocation. Dagens Nyheter previously reported that foreign hospitals had warned Ryhov’s managers when he was hired in 2014, followed by repeated serious alerts from hospital staff before he left in 2022. IVO sharply criticized Jönköping County in June for treating those warnings too lightly. The doctor could not be reached for comment.

Thereafter, the individual case at IVO will be closed.

· Christer JanssonThe IVO press chief explained what would happen after the license decision became final.
About this summary

Originally published by Dagens Nyheter in Swedish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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