Alleged victims of Dr. Skúli up to fourteen: Deaths are being investigated as manslaughter

Alleged victims of Dr. Skúli Tómas Gunn­laugs­son’s medical malpractice are now up to fourteen. Nine of those have passed away.

As told by Vísir, the investigation now being conducted by the police in Suðurnes, which has to do with alleged medical malpractice by a head doctor at Suðurnes Hospital and Health Center, resulted in the death of nine pati­ents; not six as had previously been stated before Mannlíf’s detailed coverage of the case late last year.

The deaths of Dr. Skúli’s pati­ents happ­ened in the years 2018 to 2020. The cases of five more pati­ents are being investigated. Those pati­ents had been placed on end-of-life care for no rea­son, before being trans­fer­red to a nurs­ing home and gett­ing off the treat­ment.

Lög­reglan rann­sakar sex and­lát tengd Dr. Skúla – „Boltinn er núna hjá mats­mönn­unum“

Dr. Skúli requested access to all case files and data used in the investigation in the Court of Appeal (Lands­réttur), that recently ruled that he would be granted access to parts of the data requested.

The police in Suðurnes claims that the investigation into the cases of eight pati­ents out of fourteen, is still in early stages. It is suspected that Dr. Skúli is responsi­ble for wrongly diagnos­ing and treat­ing the pati­ents in question. He would ther­efore be guilty of mans­laughter in addition to more criminal offences.

Alma Möller, the Director of Health, granted Dr. Skúli an ongoing licence to practice at Land­spít­ali, where he has been working recently. She did so in spite of hav­ing written a report that is extrem­ely critical of Dr. Skúli, to say the very least.

Álit land­læknis á máli Skúla læknis: „Ómeð­höndl­aðar sýk­ingar kunni að hafa verið aðal dán­ar­or­sök“

This article was orig­inally written in Icelandic by Björgvin Gunn­ars­son.