A doctor who was suspended following a botched operation which led to a woman losing a breast has been struck off the medical register.
Mutasim Abdul Settar Mohammed’s fate was settled at a special hearing yesterday.
A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) panel ruled that Mr Mohammed, who had been working at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, should be removed from the medical register to “ensure patient safety”.
Mr Mohammed, who was not a breast surgeon, was tasked with cutting out a cancerous growth from a woman’s breast in 2013.
However, despite cutting out twice the amount of breast tissue required, he failed to remove the growth itself.
Following this failure Mr Mohammed performed a second operation on the woman, who was left with a breast so deformed that it had to be completely removed.
Following the incident he was suspended from practising medicine for two years, but after yesterday’s tribunal he has now been permanently struck off.
Mr Mohammed was not present at the hearing.
Sara Fenoughty, chairwoman of the MPTS panel, said: “Whilst the original findings arose from a single catastrophic event which caused patient harm, the doctor’s continued refusal to accept these findings, coupled with his persistent failure to comply with the regulatory requirements of the General Medical Council, amount to behaviour which is fundamentally incompatible with being registered as a doctor.
“Although erasure is likely to have a significant impact on the doctor, in all the circumstances the panel finds this to be outweighed by the public interest and the need to ensure patient safety.”