Former Durban doctor in ‘sex-pest’ case
‘He behaved inappropriately with a nurse’
A 20-DAY hearing held by a medical practitioners tribunal in the UK will soon determine if Durban-born doctor Muhammad Zakariya Goolam Mahomed Khan is guilty of sexually motivated misconduct.
The case began at the end of last month and is to continue until March 22.
The tribunal consists of the chairperson, Damian Cooper, Dr John Garner and Sue Wadham.
It will inquire into the allegation that, on a number of occasions between 2006 and 2015, Dr Khan, 54, had behaved inappropriately towards three female members of staff, a nurse, an operating department practitioner and an assistant technical officer.
Khan is an orthopaedic surgeon at Barnsley Hospital in South Yorkshire in the UK.
He graduated with his bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery (MBChB) at the University of Natal in 1985.
According to Cooper, the tribunal heard that for six years he behaved inappropriately towards a staff nurse. She claims the doctor told her to “hurry up and have an affair before she dried up” and touched and slapped her bottom, saying: “Big, firm and you liked it.”
He also allegedly ignored her if she failed to do as he asked and on one occasion said: “You will eat what I tell you to eat.”
The woman claimed he made suggestive groans and said, “What I’d like to do to you”, while allegedly pushing his groin into her lower back.
It is also alleged that he touched her right breast when working with her in theatre and struck her on the hands with a bone lever on more than one occasion during surgical procedures.
The operating department practitioner claimed that while in theatre, Khan pressed his genitals against her bottom and said: “This is what you are missing out on.”
He also allegedly spoke to her in Afrikaans, describing what he would like to do to her if he got the chance.
She further alleged that Khan put his hand on her vagina while at the hospital’s coffee room.
In the locker room, Khan allegedly put his genitals close to her face while the practitioner was kneeling down, saying: “Don’t bite it, blow it.”
The assistant technical officer known as Miss D, said Khan made inappropriate comments when she banged her knee, asking if he could rub it better and allegedly placed his hand on her back and rubbed her knee before asking her out on a date.
She claimed that he wrapped his arms around her chest, put his hands on her ribs and said: “I like your small ribs.”
He also allegedly put his hand on her left breast and squeezed it, ran his hand on her buttocks and said: “No one needs to know about this.”
The chairperson said the case would determine if Dr Khan’s fitness to practice was impaired due to his alleged misconduct.