Brain surgeon lets daughter, 13, drill hole in unsuspecting patient's skull during operation

The encephalon surgeon was dismissed successful July aft she allegedly allowed her girl to execute connected the diligent whose skull had been crushed by a histrion during a forestry accident

A encephalon surgeon who was sacked aft allowing her 13-year-old girl drill a spread successful a patient's skull during an cognition is present suing infirmary chiefs to get her occupation back.

The medic, not named by section media in Graz, Austria, was dismissed 4 months agone aft horrified wellness chiefs heard the information astir the operation. The 39-year-old diligent had been rushed to the city's LKH hospital for urgent country past January aft his skull was crushed by a histrion during a forestry accident.

When her daughter's relation successful the op began to look successful April, infirmary bosses dismissed the neurosurgeon and called successful the constabulary who broke the quality to the horrified patient. Now the medic is suing the infirmary for unfair dismissal, claiming it dismissed her without pursuing due employment instrumentality procedure.

At an archetypal proceeding this week, her ineligible squad said they should person dismissed her arsenic soon arsenic they had received her connection confessing to allowing her girl to operate. Instead, they suspended her and past waited 3 months until aft they had received a connection from the anaesthetist connected the operation.

The tribunal was told determination was nary accidental of a colony being reached due to the fact that the surgeon would judge thing abbreviated of afloat reinstatement. Judges remanded the lawsuit until January 20 erstwhile the surgeon and different medics who were successful the operating theatre are owed to springiness evidence.

According to its website, LKH said it is simply a infirmary that patients "can consciousness harmless and secure". The infirmary has an estimated 7,100 employees and is engaged successful "innovative, practice-orientated grooming and excellent, forward-looking research."

The infirmary besides employs an estimated 1,484 doctors and has 1,556 disposable beds for patients. The Mirror has contacted LKH infirmary for comment.