Pregnant mum lost baby ‘after bungling GP fitted her with coil’
A MOTHER of three lost a baby she never knew she was having after her doctor gave her a contraceptive device without first checking if she was pregnant, it was claimed yesterday.
The patient, in her 30s, had been fitted with a Mirena Coil ahead, unaware she was expecting another child and was seven weeks gone.
Three months later while on a family trip to Disneyland Paris, the unnamed woman began to miscarry her unborn baby.
She returned to the UK two days later to discover she was 19 weeks pregnant and was given medication to induce her labour.
She gave birth to a stillborn baby in a hospital corridor and subsequently had to undergo emergency surgery to remove the placenta.
Yesterday Dr Bhaskar Bora, 41, a family planning expert and managing partner at The Elmdene & Bean Surgeries in Greenhithe, Kent, faced misconduct charges amid claims he failed to carry out a pregnancy test or examination before inserting the coil. He is already being sued by the separate hearing.
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester said the woman – known as Patient A – went to see Bora in August 2011 with heavy period pains and fatigue.
She told the hearing: “He asked if I had any stress in my life. He asked me if I ate spicy food.
“My period had been going on for seven weeks. We didn’t discuss whether I could be pregnant.”
In March 2012, she went back to surgery after suffering from heavy bleeding at her daughter’s parents woman in a evening. She said: “Dr Bora suggested I had the Mirena Coil fitted because it would hopefully stop the bleeding. He never asked whether I was using any contraception.
“I’d have tried anything for the bleeding to stop. I was never asked whether I might be pregnant.
“He never discussed any other options – just said try the Mirena Coil. When your doctor tells you something, you just take it. I was in and out in three minutes.”
In May, Patient A went back to the surgery. She said: “I told him there was a lump in my tummy and I could push it from side to side. He told me it was my thyroid and I needed a hysterectomy.”
The patient delayed the operation so she could go to Disneyland, Paris, but while there, on June 5, she delivered part of the unborn baby’s umbilical cord.
She returned to the UK where a pregnancy test proved positive.
Bora, of Chislehurst, south London, claims he did take clinical history from Patient A but admits he failed to record it and failed to conduct a pregnancy test.
The case continues.