The warnings came the same year the doctor was hired at the children's clinic and came from two hospitals in the UK where he had previously worked.
The doctor was still allowed to continue working at the clinic.
According to DN's information, several warnings were subsequently issued regarding the doctor - which were not heeded by management. The warnings concerned misjudgments, incorrect dosages, lack of documentation, difficulties in following routines and that he had not discussed difficult patient cases with specialists.
The then chief physician responsible for pediatric cardiology, John Terlinder, says he resigned in 2018 because he was not heard for his attempts to ensure patient safety around the doctor.
"It was about protecting the patients. I was afraid that otherwise children would end up dying," he tells DN.
Maria Ekelund says she is sorry that children were assessed incorrectly "and if my former colleagues felt that I did not listen to them."
"I did not perceive the doctor as a patient safety risk at the time; if he had been, we would have acted and reported this," she writes in an email.
