Surgeon found not guilty over treatment that left woman infertile

A young wife was yesterday left devastated after a surgeon who clipped both of her fallopian tubes was found not guilty of poor professional performance at a fitness to practice inquiry at the Medical Council in Dublin.

Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Declan Egan, of Dangan, Co Galway, was facing one allegation of poor professional performance over a procedure he carried out on Lorna McKeogh on June 2, 2010 at University College Hospital Galway.

Specifically, it was alleged that he clipped both her right and her left fallopian tubes in circumstances where this was not consistent with the consent form she signed on the day of her surgery.