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A doctor<\/strong>, who was found guilty<\/strong> of indecent acts, will have to now appear in front of a disciplinary board<\/strong> of the Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA), which could strip him of his medical licence<\/strong>, it emerged on Friday.<\/p>\n Speaking to CyBC, the head of the ethics committee at CyMA, Michalis Anastasiades,<\/strong> said now that the guilty verdict has been issued by the Nicosia District Court<\/strong>, the doctor will be brought in front of the CyMA disciplinary committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n Commenting on a prior guilty verdict<\/strong> involving the same doctor in a similar case, Anastasiades said that the doctor had previously appeared in front of the disciplinary committee, but that the outcome was not made public.<\/p>\n Questioned by a journalist, he admitted<\/strong> that, at the time, the committee ruled in favour of the doctor and did not revoke his licence.<\/p>\n Anastasiades added that now they will also wait for the sentence to be given out, to proceed further.<\/p>\n He mentioned that CyMA had previously requested changes to the law to allow for temporary measures in similar cases. However, their suggestions are currently pending in the files of the legal service and health ministry. \u201cUnder the current law, the doctor [recently convicted] can continue to practice<\/strong>,\u201d he emphasised.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, the doctor was found guilty of indecent acts against a patient who filed an official complaint against him back in the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n Following a hearing, the court deemed the doctor\u2019s recollections and side of the story unreliable, instead considering the complainant\u2019s testimony credible.<\/p>\n Subsequent to the conviction, the court scheduled a new trial<\/strong> for sentencing mitigation within the next month.<\/p>\n According to the prosecution, the doctor faced four charges of indecent assault against the complainant, all allegedly occurring on the same day, one after the other.<\/p>\n The complainant told the court that she had visited the doctor, a family friend, for specific examinations requiring anaesthesia.<\/p>\n She accused the doctor of taking her to a \u201cclosed space\u201d within the premises to later engage in indecent acts four times within a few minutes after she regained consciousness.<\/p>\n Follow the A doctor was found guilty of indecent acts and is set to appear before the disciplinary board of the Cyprus Medical Association, which might revoke his medical license. The guilty verdict was issued by the Nicosia District Court. The same doctor had faced a prior guilty verdict in a similar case and had appeared before the disciplinary committee, but the outcome was not made public, and his license was not revoked at that time. The doctor can still practice under current law, despite the recent conviction. The doctor was found guilty of indecent acts against a patient who filed a complaint in the summer of 2020. The court found the doctor’s testimony unreliable and the complainant’s credible. A new trial for sentencing mitigation is scheduled within the next month. The doctor faced four charges of indecent assault against the complainant, all on the same day. The complainant accused the doctor of engaging in indecent acts after she regained consciousness from anesthesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21,3,593,594,250,210,406,217,335],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-crime","tag-cyprus","tag-cyprus-medical-association-cymar","tag-doctor","tag-google","tag-health","tag-nicosia","tag-nicosia-court","tag-space"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n
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