Boy was suitable for ‘cooling’ treatment, fitness inquiry told

An inquiry at the Medical Council heard yesterday about the devastating effects cerebral palsy has had on a 2-year-old boy and his family.

A paediatric expert also told the inquiry the boy fully met the criteria for an important cooling treatment which he did not receive on the night he was born.

The fitness to practice inquiry into consultant paediatrician Mohammad Ilyas Khan continued yesterday at the Medical Council in Dublin. The allegations claim that Dr Khan, who was working at South Tipperary General Hospital in 2012, did not put an adequate treatment plan in place following the baby’s birth and diagnosis of hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (hypoxia), or lack of oxygen to the brain.