Patients, nurses rally in support of Cape Breton doctor; call for ministerial review
CTV
Several dozen people who attended a rally on Friday evening in support of a Cape Breton doctor facing new allegations of professional misconduct and/or incompetence are calling for a ministerial review into Nova Scotia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Several dozen people who attended a rally on Friday evening in support of a Cape Breton doctor facing new allegations of professional misconduct and/or incompetence are calling for a ministerial review into Nova Scotia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The College has set aside eight days, starting Monday, for a hearing in Halifax into the latest patient complaints against Dr. Manivasan Moodley, an obstetrician-gynecologist (OBGYN) at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital.
Moodley, who attended the rally in front of City Hall in downtown Sydney, told CTV Atlantic that the turnout of supportive patients and nurses shows that the allegations don’t reflect the way he practices medicine.
He added that the allegations have been difficult, personally and professionally.
"This has not only traumatized me, it's traumatized my family, my children,” Moodley said. “And each time the College does this and drag me to a hearing, my practice closes and I have to re-divert my patients, who put their trust, their confidence and their respect in the care."
According to information posted to Nova Scotia's College of Physicians and Surgeons website, one complaint from 2017 alleges Moodley made inappropriate comments about a patient's wish to have a tubal ligation to prevent pregnancy.
The two other complaints, both from 2020, had to do with episiotomies, a surgical incision used during some childbirths.
