Santa Maria Hospital, in Lisbon
Doctor Miguel Alpalhão, who received more than 700 thousand euros in three years of additional surgeries at the Hospital de Santa Maria, in Lisbon, was suspended from his duties with total loss of salary.
The news was advanced by . The dermatologist is no longer working at the hospital where he was bound by an individual employment contract.
A report from the General Inspectorate of Health Activities (IGAS), this month, concluded that the doctor earned more than 700 thousand euros in three years of additional surgeries, carried out outside normal working hours to reduce waiting lists, and proposed, approved and coded his own surgeries more than 350 times.
He even made an appointment for his parents without mandatory prior referral and operated on them, receiving more than 5,500 euros.
IGAS considers that the health professional’s actions violated the “principle of segregation of duties”.
In his defense, the doctor declared that the proposal he made was in accordance with the procedures in force, that the scheduling had no procedural irregularities and that the appointments were marked as extra, in his diary, without taking away any other patient’s turn.
