Three senior officials of the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health Valvira have been fined in a case brought after two unqualified doctors were uncovered.
Valvira’s senior inspector, head of unit and managing director all received fines for negligence in their official duties.
The prosecutor successfully argued that they should have looked more closely at the credentials of two men claiming to be doctors, especially as they had been informed of suspicions over their qualifications.
The defendants claimed that accreditation process in the case of the two fake doctors failed because of an excessively heavy workload at supervisory authority.
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