Baby brain damaged by lack of oxygen at birth

A mother yesterday gave an emotional testimony to a Medical Council inquiry after her son was left brain damaged following a lack of oxygen to his brain during birth.

Dr Mohammad Ilyas Khan, from Tipperary, faces allegations of poor professional performance, specifically in relation to a two-year-old boy, BT, who was born on June 15, 2012.

BT’s mother, Noelle Tobin, made the complaint against Dr Khan, who was practising as a locum consultant paediatrician in South Tipperary General Hospital in Clonmel at the time of the birth.