National Health Fund inspection at the hospital in Nowa Sól regarding the excessive number of heart attack diagnoses

Acute myocardial infarction was entered in the patients' records, but it later turned out that there were no grounds for such a diagnosis. Some patients complained that they were losing access to the medicines they needed. The contraindication to their use was acute heart attack.

As our journalist found out, the inspection at the Multi-Specialty Hospital in Nowa Sól is primarily intended to demonstrate why the treatment of heart attacks using the acute coronary syndrome method constituted the majority, almost three-quarters of cardiological procedures in this hospital, and planned procedures only one quarter.

In other institutions, the proportions are usually exactly the opposite. Treating acute syndromes is better priced and means more money for hospitals.

The authorities of the hospital in Nowa Sól explained that these numbers result from the fact that they accept patients from different parts of the Lubusz Voivodeship and that they specialize in the treatment of serious cases. And this is what the National Health Fund will now check.