London, Nov 4 (ANI): A Malaysian-born breast cancer surgeon in Britain, who carelessly operated 35 women, leaving many disfigured and in pain, has finally been struck off the medical register.
Sixty-four-year- old consultant Puvan Markandoo was stopped from working privately three years ago after a series of complaints.
She was allowed to carry on working on NHS patients under supervision, despite the fact that the General Medical Council found failings in 11 aspects of her work.
Now, after a second GMC investigation, Markandoo, who qualified as a doctor 34 years ago, has been stopped from working altogether, The Daily Mail reports.
According to the paper, female patients at Barnsley Hospital in South Yorkshire complained of pain, injury and disfigurement after surgery between 2005 and 2008.
A group of victims have now received 1.2million pounds in compensation from the hospital.
The GMC has ended Markandoo's career after a report showed she had 'an exceptionally poor standard of medical knowledge and skills'.
A 'fitness to practice' panel in Manchester heard that medical assessors checking her performance last October decided she had got worse since 2007.
"They indicated that your performance was so poor that it did not reach the level of a newly-qualified doctor," the panel chairman Patrick Conway said.
"The panel has serious concerns about the wide-ranging and basic deficiencies in your medical knowledge and clinical skills," he added. (ANI)
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