LONDON - A hospital doctor accused of failing to protect his patients by ensuring he was not HIV positive after his former lover told him she had the virus, denied serious professional misconduct at a General Medical Council hearing yesterday.
Ms Nicola Davis, QC, counsel for Or Patrick Ngosa (who did not attend the hearing), said that he admitted failing to take Is adequate steps to discover his HIV status after the woman, referred to only as Mrs A, told him the result of her test.
But she accused the media, who revealed his identity at the weekend, of conducting "a witch hunt" against him and asked for an adjournment.
Dr Jonathan Street, of North Thames health region, said there had been only two cases in the world where patients had contracted HIV during operations - one involving a dentist in Florida, where six people contracted HIV, and the other involving a French orthopaedic surgeon.