Consultant faces fitness to practise inquiry

A CONSULTANT obstetrician and gynaecologist is facing a Medical Council fitness to practise inquiry over the care he gave to a young woman who died from cancer two years ago.

Dr Etop Akpan, who qualified in Nigeria in 1984 and works at Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, is facing 38 allegations of professional misconduct and/or poor professional performance.

Sharon McEneaney from Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, was 29 in October 2007 when she began to complain of severe abdominal pain.