A doctor's lies and omissions have cost him his career.
A doctor's lies and omissions have cost him his career.
The practising days of a doctor who trained in Hawke's Bay and was struck off the New Zealand medical registry last year appear finally over after a similar ban in the UK.
Hirron Fernando, from Sri Lanka, was employed by the Hawke's Bay District Health Board in 2006-07.
He cameto New Zealand with qualifications from the MB BS Degree Programme at the University of West Indies in Jamaica, a medical undergraduate programme providing a broad education for the study of health and disease, attained in 2001.
He has been in Northern Ireland for several years, and was not present for a hearing last year in which the New Zealand Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal found him guilty of professional misconduct.
The tribunal found he lied to both the Hawke's Bay DHB and the Wellington-based Capital and Coast District Health Board in 2014 in duping staff into giving him patient details for a court case in Britain.
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal in the UK, in a hearing attended by Fernando last month, also heard Fernando abused two women in phone calls he made to New Zealand.
The calls were laced with obscenity and profanity, threatening to "slaughter" one of the woman and to come to New Zealand to kill her.
The UK tribunal also considered his breach of a non-molestation order in 2013, and a charge of common assault of which he was convicted in a Belfast court in 2015, neither of which he advised Britain's General Medical Council about.
