Doctor wins nine-year legal battle to quash sanction over UHL incident

The incident happened at University Hospital Limerick

Shane Phelan

A doctor who worked as an oncology registrar at ­University ­Hospital Limerick (UHL) has won a nine-year battle to quash a finding made against him by a Medical Council fitness-to-practice committee.

At a hearing in 2015, junior doctor Saqib Ahmed (43) had faced nine allegations of professional misconduct and/or poor professional performance, but was ultimately cleared of all counts bar one.