Doctor who ‘decapitated’ baby allowed to keep job

A SHAMED gynaecologist who caused an unborn baby to be decapitated inside his mother’s womb during a bungled hospital delivery was told she could keep her NHS job last night.

Dr Vaishnavy Laxman escaped censure after a medical tribunal said she posed ‘no risk to patient safety’.

The consultant listened as panel chairman Tim Bradbury told the hearing in Manchester: ‘In respect of patient safety, the tribunal was satisfied Dr Laxman does not currently present a risk to patients.

‘Her wrong decision related to an isolated, single incident in an otherwise unblemished

career.’ Last night, despite pleas by the General Medical Council to impose sanctions for serious professional misconduct, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service said it did not believe Dr Laxman’s fitness to practise medicine was ‘impaired’ by the shocking incident.

It also ruled no warning would be placed on her record. The doctor is currently practising medicine in her native India.

She was found guilty of several disciplinary charges on Monday and criticised for ‘an error of judgement’ following the tragedy on March 16, 2014, while she was working at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, Scotland.

Dr Laxman, 43, should have given the 30-year old mother an emergency Caesarean section but she tried to carry out the delivery naturally.

No warning on her record