Ex-HSE surgeon is flown back from Prague to work here every fortnight

A surgeon who left the HSE last December is being flown back from the Czech Republic to work two days every fortnight and being given free accommodation — all at the taxpayers’ expense.

Ex-HSE surgeon is flown back from Prague to work here every fortnight

The HSE has confirmed the situation is occurring because of chronic delays in finding a replacement for Ondrej Adamec.

Mr Adamec, a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon now based in Prague, quit his permanent consultant post at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth, last December. However, while funding has been made available to employ a replacement, nobody has been appointed to date.

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