Gynaecologist hauled before courts after causing 'severe harm and emotional distress'
21.05.2024 - 20:49
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A gynaecologist who ‘risked people’s safety’ has been hauled before court and sentenced after performing a procedure that caused ‘severe emotional harm and physical distress’ – all while unregistered with the healthcare watchdog.
Dr Fakher Fouad Gendy, trading as FEM-Aesthetics, was sentenced at Warrington Magistrates Court on May 16 on a charge of providing regulated activities without being registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to do so. Dr Gendy, aged 74, carried out a labiaplasty on June 10, 2023, under his company name FEM-Aesthetics.
Last month, the Manchester Evening News reported how Dr Gendy was suspended from practising medicine. The doctor left a new mother ‘feeling like a cow’ during a delivery of her baby that shocked his fellow doctors and midwives.
‘Neither Dr Gendy or FEM-Aesthetics were registered with CQC to undertake any regulated activities including surgical procedures. The patient upon whom Dr Gendy performed this procedure as an unregistered provider, has been caused severe emotional harm and physical distress’, said the CQC of last week's sentencing.
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This is a criminal offence under section 10 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008, the CQC has said. Dr Gendy, the director of the the gynaecology service, was sentenced to 16 weeks imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, and and ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work within this timeframe. He was also ordered to pay £5,000 costs and £154 victim surcharge.
According to the NHS, a labiaplasty is surgery to reduce the size of the labia minora either side of the vaginal opening. FEM-Aesthetics declined to comment after