Summit with hospital bosses

Scandalous operation with 13-year-old: “That’s not who we are!”

"Krone" editor-in-chief Klaus Herrmann (2nd from left) and editor Monika König-Krisper hosted a round table in the "Steirerkrone" newsroom.(Bild: Christian Jauschowetz)

A 13-year-old girl operated on a seriously injured patient at Graz State Hospital - a scandal with consequences. The "Krone" newspaper has now invited politicians and hospital operators to a crisis summit: How was this possible?

This story is too unbelievable to be true. That's what we at the "Krone" thought. As did most people. However, as initial evidence began to mount, we published the unbelievable case of a Styrian doctor who allegedly smuggled her underage daughter, who was under the age of criminal responsibility, into an operating theater at the Graz neurosurgery department and, on top of that, allowed her to play a major role in the procedure - an emergency operation on a severely injured Styrian.