Consultant is struck off after he led parents to pay for private cancer tests for children

A consultant paediatrician has been struck off the UK medical register after a tribunal found that he had led parents to believe that their children may have cancer without sufficient investigation in order to induce them to pay for expensive private tests.Three different families reported Mina Chowdhury, a Glasgow based private consultant, to the General Medical Council, giving similar accounts of consultations in which he had suggested that their child’s symptoms could be caused by cancer but did not refer them to NHS paediatric oncology services. Instead, he recommended that they travel to London for tests that he arranged privately.Chowdhury told the family of a 15 month old girl with a suspected lipoma that it was a soft tissue sarcoma. He told the mother of a 30 month old boy, who had been taken to Chowdhury for a cystic fibrosis test, that the boy might have blood cancer or lymphoma.He…
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