Doctor ‘told patient sex with him could ease MS’

A MARRIED doctor convinced a patient to have sex with him by saying it would help relieve her multiple sclerosis, a tribunal heard.

Dr Kwame Somuah-Boateng, 43, allegedly told the woman intercourse would stimulate the muscles in her legs, saying: ‘Trust me, I’m a doctor.’

He and his patient, who was in her 30s, would meet for sex in his hospital sleeping quarters, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal was told.

During their six-month affair he vowed to marry her and have a son, even though he had a wife and daughters in his native Ghana, it was claimed.

Somuah-Boateng is accused of telling the woman intercourse would ‘help her pelvic floor muscles because they were weak’.

Their fling – which began in July 2012 after she was admitted to Croydon University Hospital, South London – ended when she discovered that she might be pregnant.

The doctor allegedly told her his wife would kill the baby, it was said.

When the woman, known as Patient A, thought she had miscarried, he allegedly tried to have sex with her again. She discovered the consultant urologist’s claims about sex and her condition were false when she went for a later appointment for her MS, the tribunal in Manchester heard.

Giving evidence, she said: ‘If I had known that what was happening to me was something dreadful… I would have had the police at my door.’

Somuah-Boetang, of Mitcham, South London, denies he initiated contact with Patient A, insisting she got in touch with him and asked him for the sexual relationship. He also denies supplying her with prescription medication.

The case, brought by the General Medical Council, continues.