What doctor told MS patient, tribunal hears ‘SEX WITH ME WILL CURE YOU’

A DOCTOR had an affair with a patient and told her: “Having sex with me is good for you,” when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a tribunal heard.

Senior A&E doctor, Kwame Somuah-Boateng, 43, told the woman that intercourse with him would stimulate the muscles in her legs when he had sex with her in his hospital sleeping quarters saying.

He also told her: “Trust me, I’m a doctor – it will help you to get your sensitivity back.’’

During their illicit romance, Somuah-Boateng took the woman, who is in her 30s, to a christening and vowed to marry her and have a son by her – even though he already had a wife and daughters in his native Ghana.

At the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service the woman said: “He told me sex was good for my condition numerous times.

“Initially I thought that it was going to help me get my feelings back – I just wanted to be normal again. He was telling me he was going to help me, I thought he was the only one who could help me, the only one I could talk to about the condition because he was telling me he understood it.

“At the time I thought the relationship was normal.”

The affair began in July 2012 after the unnamed woman was admitted to the A&E department at Croydon University Hospital in south London when she complained of being unable to feel her legs or feet properly.

Somuah-Boateng, a urologist, had escorted her to a colleague for an MRI scan and when she was devastated to subsequently discover she had MS he began comforting and advising her about it.

The woman told the Manchester hearing: “When I first met him I didn’t know he was a doctor.

“I assumed he was a porter because he took me to the MRI scan that I was having.

“He was the one who explained what MS was to me and I was upset and confused and he comforted me.

“A few days later he called me and DENIAL: Kwame Somuah-Boateng explained who he was. I thought it was nice of him to call. He asked me how I was doing and how I was feeling and if I had a boyfriend.

“He offered to take me out and I gave his number to my sister so she could do something if I was going with the strange man.

He invited me to a christening and said that he would pick me up.

“In the car on the way back he told me that I had nice legs and asked me to pull my dress up so he could see more of them.

“He tried to kiss me and put his hand between my legs but I said no. He was calling me every day.

“He came over and asked me how I was and he was massaging my feet and my legs telling me I needed to stimulate them.

“Then he moved my legs apart and started giving me oral sex, telling me it would stimulate the muscles down there and help get the sensation back.

“I wanted to have sex with him because I thought it helped. We had sex twice in the on-call doctors sleeping quarters at the hospital.

“We had a few pregnancy scares and he was very excited about them, saying, ‘ We can try again,’ when it turned out I wasn’t pregnant.

“But I went to see my mum in America in December and I thought I was pregnant again.

“I rang him and he wasn’t happy about it. He said he wasn’t going to tell his family and that his wife would kill the baby.”

Somuah-Boetang of Mitcham, Surrey, denies he initiated contact with the patient and also separate charges of supplying her with any prescription medication, but only paracetamol.

The hearing continues.