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Allegations of Sexual
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The New Zealand Medical Council
has admitted it may have put women patients at risk by not suspending
convicted sex abuser and New Plymouth GP Hiran Fernando earlier. It is now
reviewing whether it took the right actions when women first complained in
the 1980s and when the latest 37 charges of sexual assault were first filed
by police in court. Yesterday, the council's chief executive Philip Pigou
said the council was very distressed by Fernando's "appalling
offending" and it apologised to victims for his behaviour.
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