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Gagoh misconduct leads to reprimand
Fitness to practise. Records and waste abandoned
A Ghanaian dentist who left clinical waste, contaminated sharps, pharmaceutical prod- ucts and patient records behind after vacating his practice premises has been reprimanded by the General Dental Council. Oscar Kwame Gagoh, who
gained his LDS in Edinburgh in 1995, was working in Manchester at the Clayton Dental Centre until March 2008 when the local Primary Care Trust (PCT) termin- ated his contract. A dental advisor to the
PCT visited the premises in October 2009 when the premises were in the process of being repossessed. He found 200 phials of local anaesthetic, three sharps bins, three bags of clinical waste and an unlocked filing cabinet on the ground floor full of patient records. In the basement he also found more patient records, many of which were in a poor or decaying condition. In all, 30 boxes of records were removed to a secure storage facility. In January the GDC’s
Professional Conduct Committee concluded that Gagoh’s failure to make proper arrangements when
he vacated the premises amounted to misconduct and his fitness to practise is currently impaired. However, in mitigation,
the committee heard that Gagoh was under pressure for financial and family reasons and, although there were risks, no patients or any other person were harmed. The committee therefore ruled that the case was to be concluded with a reprimand.
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Conditions revoked
A Dundee graduate who lost the records of thousands of his patients has appeared before the General Dental Council. Omer Shaukat Butt was the owner and principal of the Unsworth Smile Clinic in Bury, Lancashire, when a van contain- ing filing cabinets holding 10,000 patient records and a computer containing patient radiographs, was stolen after being left on the street overnight. The computer and records had been moved into the van during work to renovate the practice in July 2008. Late last year the Professional Conduct Committee revoked the conditions placed on his registra- tion in December 2009, stating that he had “learnt a salutary lesson and shown insight into the seriousness of your impairment”.
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