Doctors in Norway’s Hammerfest Hospital first became concerned about their colleague, Gavriel Simha Furedi, shortly after he started working there as an ophthalmologist in March 2020.
Dr Furedi had a poor grasp of the language and was unable to understand basic Latin terms any doctor should know. He had trouble interpreting scans and sometimes did not read the medical notes of his patients, an investigation by The Irish Times, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and 50 other media outlets around the world has found.
More concerning was his lack of understanding of infection control and sterilisation procedures, something of particular concern given the arrival of Covid-19 in Norway that spring. He also struggled with administering injections and did not seem to improve with training.
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The doctor left the Hammerfest Hospital in July 2020 after just four months. Around the same time, two of his colleagues formally raised complaints about his medical competence.
The Norwegian Board of Health Supervision, which oversees medical licences in the country, launched an investigation which, in Ju
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