Before he was diagnosed with coronavirus in March 2020, Ilter Aykac said he didn’t have any significant medical issues.
An NYPD doctor accused a detective “disabled” by COVID-19 of lying about his symptoms and tried to force him back to work — even though the officer could no longer drive and now needs an oxygen tank, according to a lawsuit.
Aykac caught coronavirus on the job, he said, where a handful of colleagues were infected before he was. “I’ve never been sick before. … Then this thing happened, I got sick, almost died,” the 14-year veteran of the force said.Yet an NYPD doctor, Leon Eisikowitz, slammed Aykac as a “malingerer,” repeatedly forced him to travel in for appointments in Queens and pressured him to return to work, according to a Manhattan Supreme court lawsuit against the physician and the city.
Eisikowitz even encouraged Aykac to ignore a cancerous mass on his kidney which had been discovered by another doctor during the course of his treatment, the detective alleges in the legal filing. Aykac eventually had successful surgery to remove the mass.
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