Former MSG doctor admits removing ovaries of two women without consent
A former partner at the Medical Specialist Group has admitted removing the ovaries of two local women without their consent.
The admissions were revealed as a Medical Practitioners Tribunal hearing got under way in Manchester, looking at the conduct of obstetrician and gynaecologist Ali Shokouh-Amiri.
The doctor, who worked in the island from 2016 to 2019, faces a range of accusations relating to six local patients under his care in 2017 and 2018.
As well as admitting the removals, he had also admitted hugging patients on two occasions and on numerous occasions performing intimate examinations on patients without a chaperone present.
He has also admitted wiping a patient’s intimate area and failing to arrange investigations into a patient’s medical problems.
The vast majority of the accusations against Mr Shokouh-Amiri are still to be determined.
All the patients involved in the case have been anonymised in the documentation of the hearing.
It is alleged patient A, who saw the doctor between October 2017 and August 2018, was touched in intimate areas, with the doctor advising her how to have sex and masturbate.
It is also claimed he talked about sex toys and that he said he was a good person to sort the patient’s sex life out.
He also is alleged to have made comments about the size of the patient’s husband and asking to see him without his trousers.
In relation to patient D, it is alleged he touched her in an intimate area and claimed to have used a speculum for an examination, when he had not. It was also claimed that when the patient was later in hospital he had inappropriately touched her.
It is alleged he suggested patient E should join him in the gym.
In relation to patient F, it is claimed he kissed her on several occasions, asked for intimate details of her sex life and masturbation, and suggested she should have an affair and join a dating site.
It is also alleged that he asked her if she was ‘getting horny’ and asked if it ‘feels good’ when he was intimately touching her. He is claimed to have said it was important she not share any of their conversations with anyone as they were private.
The tribunal is looking at whether a number of these matters were sexually motivated.
The tribunal will also look at a claim that between 2016 and 2019 Mr Shokouh-Amiri had more than 270 patients’ clinical documents on his mobile phone, as well as clinical photographs of two patients.
Mr Shokouh-Amiri worked at the MSG as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist from October 2016 to August 2019, but stopped seeing patients in Guernsey in January 2019.
The MSG has previously confirmed that the doctor, who qualified in Denmark and has been recently working for the NHS in Essex, was part of the partnership. It has said it will not comment further until the hearing has concluded.
The hearing is set to run until 14 February.
