A medical tribunal heard that Dr. Suhail Anjum, 44, “left a patient on an operating table under anaesthetic to go and have s3x with a nurse in another room.”
The doctor and the “unnamed nurse” were discovered in a “compromising position” by a “shocked” colleague at Tameside Hospital in Greater Manchester in September 2023.
The incident came to light during a “fitness to practise hearing” after Dr. Anjum, who had been living in Pakistan, applied to work in the UK again.
He did not dispute the evidence presented by the General Medical Council (GMC) and admitted his behavior was “shameful.”
The consultant anaesthetist had said he was taking a “comfort break” and asked a nursing colleague to monitor the male patient.
Instead, Dr. Anjum went to “another operating theatre at the hospital in Ashton-under-Lyne where he had s3x with a woman referred to in the hearing as Nurse C.”
Andrew Molloy, representing the GMC, said the nurse who discovered the pair was “shocked and quickly walked through the theatre to the exit doors.”
He added that while Dr. Anjum was absent for about eight minutes, “no harm came to the patient when Dr Anjum was absent from the theatre and the procedure went on without further incident.”
Dr. Anjum admitted that he knew the nurse was “likely to be nearby” and that his actions had the potential to put his patient at risk.
He told the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service that he wanted to resume his career and promised the incident was a “one-off error of judgment.”
He gave evidence saying, “It was quite shameful, to say the least. I only have myself to blame.”
He offered his “sincere apologies to everyone involved” and said, “I want the opportunity to put this right.”
The doctor claimed the incident happened after a “stressful time” for his family, when he and his wife were “failing to connect as a couple” following the “premature birth of his daughter.”
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