Fitness to practise: Public’s right to know

THE public has a right to know whether Dr Chhetri worked in Ireland, the Labour Party insisted last night.

Labour’s health spokeswoman Jan O’Sullivan acknowledged the Medical Council’s responsibility to protect the identity of doctors in cases where decisions on their fitness to practise had yet to made, and where they could yet be cleared of wrongdoing.

But in this instance, she said, it had clearly been determined that Dr Chhetri was not fit to practise.