Gastric band surgeon was censured by French ministry

A FRENCH cosmetic surgeon, who is suspended from practising in Ireland pending the outcome of a Medical Council ruling, was also censured by the French Health Ministry in 2006.

Mr Jerome Manuceau was in Dublin this week to appear at the inquest of one of his patients, Bernadette Reid who died last year after a gastric band operation.

It has emerged that 10 years previously, Mr Manuceau was at the centre of an inquiry on the French West Indies island of Desirade after up to 220 inhabitants on the island were operated upon for appendicitis. The previous year just three such operations took place.