Fitness probe to rule on top surgeon

A medical inquiry is expected to rule later today into allegations of poor professional performance against one the country’s leading paediatric surgeons.

A fitness-to-practise committee of the Irish Medical Council yesterday completed its oral hearing into the case against Martin Corbally, senior consultant at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin.

Prof Corbally, who is currently working at the King Hamad University Hospital in Bahrain, has denied four charges of poor professional performance over his treatment of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl on whom an incorrect tongue operation was performed in Apr 2010.