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• E SHAWKY GAYED: MEDIL PEAK BODY SUBPOENAED FOR RMATN 2000
• AUTHORI KNEW DISGRACED SURGEON E GAYED HAD HARMED WOMEN OVER S
• E GAYED: SURGEON WHO LEFT WOMEN MUTILATED SAYS PATIENTS ARE 'MISRMED'
• E GAYED: POLICE LNCH STRIKE FORCE TO VTIGATE DISGRACED GYNAELOGIST
• E GAYED: DISGRACED GYNAELOGIST ALLEGEDLY FIRED OM MONA VALE HOSPAL 2007
• A TIMELE OF THE PLATS AGAST E GAYED
• E GAYED: WOMEN HARMED BY DISGRACED GYNAELOGIST URGED TO JO PENSATN SCHEME
• E GAYED: DAMNG REPORT FDS STAFF BEME 'SENSISED' TO HIS ERRORS
• DISGRACED GYNAELOGIST E GAYED NTUED TO OPERATE DUE TO AQUATE OVERSIGHT, REGNAL HEALTH QUIRY HEARS
• E SHAWKY GAYED
• E GAYED GYNAELOGIST DOCTOR UNR VTIGATN FOR MEDIL NEGLIGENCE AND MISNDUCT
• EXPOSG E GAYED, THE OBSTETRICIAN WHO MUTILATED SR OF NSW WOMEN

E SHAWKY GAYED: MEDIL PEAK BODY SUBPOENAED FOR RMATN 2000

But the disgraced doctor was not barred om practisg until public hospals NSW are the subject of an pennt quiry orred by the health partment followg revelatns that Gayed unnecsarily operated on women who uld have been treated wh pakillers and bed-rt, and needlsly removed some women’s reproductive ans. A woman who only wanted to be intified as Nile told Guardian Atralia that Gayed performed a laparospy procre on her 2007, a low-risk, quick and mimally vasive procre that is ed to exame ternal ans and which requir only small said she woke up after the procre, performed at the Manng hospal Taree, “the most excciatg pa I have ever been ”.

AUTHORI KNEW DISGRACED SURGEON E GAYED HAD HARMED WOMEN OVER S

Instead, thori repeatedly found the standard of his re was “reasonable” Tuday the New South Wal civil and admistrative tribunal (CAAT) published s full cisn the se agast disgraced gynaelogist E Shawky Gayed, heard over three days se was brought agast Gayed by the Health Care Complats Commissn (HCCC) and was ma public followg a Guardian Atralia the tribunal’s full fdgs were not published until reveal a shockg and tailed history of plats agast Gayed that prompted numero performance reviews led by the NSW Medil Board, which found ultimately Gayed’s nduct was “reasonable” the time of the tribunal hearg June, Gayed had relquished his medil licence. He was alt wh by a profsnal standards mtee, who orred he unrgo a performance 1998 the HCCC received a plat om the Southern Area Health Service allegg Gayed breached protols for fectn ntrol, failed to obta rmed patient nsent, altered medil rerds, and possibly had visual impairment and munitn issu. The Medil Board 2006 then nducted a review of the 2001 ndns imposed on Gayed’s registratn, and cid to remove board received notice 2007 that Gayed had been volved a “number of clil cints” at Mona Vale hospal and as a rult had rigned.

But 2009 the performance mtee of the Medil Board cid Gayed no longer required allegatns and plats to the HCCC were ma the years that followed, cludg by a woman who said Gayed did not obta rmed nsent om her before removg three-quarters of her cervix. Gayed agreed wh expert evince given to the tribunal that he remend the abortn even though he had no evince of any damage to the tribunal found Gayed guilty of profsnal misnduct all seven s, and termed were he still a registered medil practner, the tribunal would ncel his registratn. A disgraced gynaelogist acced by dozens of women of performg botched and needls operatns on them has told Guardian Atralia his patients are “misrmed” and that “plitns n arise om any surgery” Shawky Gayed has spoken publicly about accatns agast him for the first time sce Guardian Atralia revealed he had been found guilty by the New South Wal civil and admistrative tribunal of rryg out multiple procr that fell “signifintly below” profsnal procr clud s where women who uld have been treated wh pakillers and bed rt stead unrwent vasive then, dozens more women have e forward, sparkg an pennt quiry to the five health districts where he worked.

High-profile barrister Gail Furns, one of the child sexual abe royal missners, is leadg the vtigatn and will liver her fdgs to the NSW ernment on managers of the Manng ral referral hospal Taree prevly told Guardian Atralia that Gayed was performg ablatn at a staggerg rate – almost 60% more equently than his peers. Four separate law firms are vtigatg plats ma by dozens of women, and the law firm Slater & Gordon is gatherg evince for a potential class-actn after was revealed Gayed had a history of plats agast him datg back to 1997. Most of his patients were treated the regnal NSW town of Taree, where Gayed worked for almost 20 years private practice and at the Manng Rural Referral public revelatns triggered the NSW ernment to orr an pennt quiry to Gayed, the hospals where he worked and the way plats agast him were managed.

E GAYED: SURGEON WHO LEFT WOMEN MUTILATED SAYS PATIENTS ARE 'MISRMED'

She found his actns may have ntributed to the ath of a baby Furns unvered Gayed’s petence, the mismanagement of plats agast him, and wispread harm to his patients spanng s, only police n terme if his actns were potentially crimal, and if there is enough evince to lnch a crimal Friday a NSW police spokwoman nfirmed police had fished nsirg the Furns report fdgs and had cid to lnch an official vtigatn. ”Several women treated by Gayed have begun receivg letters askg for wrten nsent for their medil rerds to be passed on to tectiv om Strike Force Noongale, and for permissn for police to ntact her quiry Furns found: “Of most ncern is that a repeated theme has been the unnecsary removal of ans, unnecsary or wrong procr, perforatns of ans and reluctance to transfer to tertiary facili”.

E GAYED: POLICE LNCH STRIKE FORCE TO VTIGATE DISGRACED GYNAELOGIST

“The health system failed each of the women, ” her report found, remendg var health system reforms to ensure greater oversight of doctors, pecially ral and regnal separate law firms are also reprentg more than 60 women between them who have menced legal actn agast Gayed.

But a HCCC spokman uld not nfirm what if any actn was taken agast Dr E Shawky Gayed at the time, sayg the se was referred to the medil board for Atralian Health Practner Regulatn Agency (Ahpra), which works partnership wh the medil board, did not rpond to qutns om Guardian Atralia about any disciplary actn taken agast Gayed prr to his 2018 van Baren-Davey told Guardian Atralia that she was so angered and upset by her treatment at the hands of Gayed that she plaed 11 years ago to the HCCC and to Mona Vale hospal, om where he was subsequently fired.

E GAYED: DISGRACED GYNAELOGIST ALLEGEDLY FIRED OM MONA VALE HOSPAL 2007

Gayed ntued to work elsewhere cludg the town of Taree on the New South Wal ast, where has been revealed he needlsly removed women’s reproductive ans at the Manng ral referral hospal and where one of his patients died after he failed to properly diagnose and treat her. The new quiry is beg led by barrister Gail Furns, spans five public hospals NSW where Gayed is known to have worked and will exame the way regulators rpond to plats about him and how senr staff who worked wh him rpond to errors he ma and ncerns raised by staff and Baren-Davey said she has sr tissue followg the surgeri and has been told she needs further surgery to remove bee is obstctg her bowel.

A TIMELE OF THE PLATS AGAST E GAYED

“It has changed my life pletely, ” Van Baren-Davey said she has ma another plat to the HCCC followg Guardian Atralia’s reports and has also ntacted one of the dited hotl tablished for those who believe they are victims of Gayed’s to ll. - Three plats to HCCC arise om Gayed’s treatment at Cooma Hospal, one of which rulted no further actn as a rult of no clil cricism, one disntued followg vtigatn as a rult of no clil cricism, and one prosecuted before Profsnal Standards Commtee but not until years later, 2001.

E GAYED: WOMEN HARMED BY DISGRACED GYNAELOGIST URGED TO JO PENSATN SCHEME

– A patient mak a plat to the HCCC allegg that terurse beme paful after Gayed performed a vagal prolapse repair, that further surgery he performed failed to fix the problem, and subsequent surgery performed by another gynaelogist did. 2004– A plat is ma to the HCCC by a patient allegg that when she went to labour at 22 weeks pregnant wh tws, Gayed refed to transfer her om the regnal hospal to another hospal wh facili to re for very premature babi.

– Gayed performs a hysterectomy on patient intified by the HCCC as Patient A to remove a fibroid, even though such treatment was not remend light of her plex surgil history and other possible, ls vasive treatments.

E GAYED: DAMNG REPORT FDS STAFF BEME 'SENSISED' TO HIS ERRORS

Hundreds of women harmed by disgraced former New South Wal gynaelogist E Gayed – who needlsly removed women’s reproductive ans and performed unnecsary surgeri on them over the urse of two s – n apply for pensatn om the NSW ernment unr a redrs Thursday a 90-day wdow began for women harmed by him to jo the scheme. Slater and Gordon is one of several law firms workg wh his victims, and the class actns senr associate Dr Ebony Birchall said about 100 women had already e forward to the firm “havg suffered appallg and avoidable juri as a rult of Gayed’s unchecked, negligent treatment and the NSW ernment’s failure to regulate Gayed”. Guardian Atralia first exposed Gayed 2018 an vtigatn that revealed medil thori knew the gynaelogist was performg surgeri that were harmg women and that he was providg substandard re durg pregnanci as far back as 1997, but failed to permanently stop him for another two of his patients died of ncer after unnecsary treatment by the disgraced were left wh life-threateng fectns after surgeri, or their babi need specialist re after birth.

DISGRACED GYNAELOGIST E GAYED NTUED TO OPERATE DUE TO AQUATE OVERSIGHT, REGNAL HEALTH QUIRY HEARS

Gayed paid for one woman to go to a Sydney clic for an abortn, tellg her there was a high risk her foet was not healthy after he performed an ablatn procre on her utes whout realisg she was pregnant, bee ablatn, a surgil procre, n harm the unborn child.

Gayed remend the abortn even though he had no evince any damage to the foet had women had surgeri performed on them that they later found out were unnecsary, such as hysterectomi, fallopian tube removal and the removal of utere tissue. Concerns about his performance were raised yearly, and his actns may have ntributed to the ath of a baby boy, she GuiHow to get the latt news om Guardian AtraliaShowPhotograph: Tim Robberts/Stone RFThe Furns report revealed that the hospal where Gayed spent the most time and flicted the most harm, the Manng Rural Referral hospal the regnal NSW town of Taree, failed to rry out checks of Gayed’s registratn stat, or perform background checks wh regulatory bodi such as the Medil Board or the Health Care Complats was spe Gayed signg a nsent form allowg them to perform the checks.

“While we were nfint that a class actn would have shed light on the years of regulatory failure, the scheme which we have negotiated is specifilly signed to acmodate the needs of our clients, who have suffered very timate juri at the hands of Gayed, ” she predomantly worked throughout public hospals on the mid-north ast of NSW, Taree, Kempsey and Grafton, as well as Mona Vale hospal Sydney. A sthg 220-page report to several New South Wal hospals and health districts has scribed how tastrophic failur allowed the gynaelogist E Shawky Gayed to harm sr of women – some of them irreparably – over the urse of two s.

E SHAWKY GAYED

“The health system failed each of the women, ” Furns than 250 women have lled dited hotl tablished June to rpond to ncerns about Gayed after a Guardian Atralia vtigatn revealed the signifint harm experienced by his former Furns report reveals that the hospal where Gayed spent the most time and flicted the most harm, the Manng Rural Referral hospal Taree, failed to rry out checks of Gayed’s registratn stat, or perform background checks wh regulatory bodi such as the Medil Board or the HCCC.

Those checks would have revealed that numero plats had been ma agast him at Mona Vale hospal on Sydney’s northern beach, and at Cooma hospal the state’s Furns SC was unsel assistg the royal missn to stutnal rpons to child sexual abe prr to her volvement the Gayed report.

E GAYED GYNAELOGIST DOCTOR UNR VTIGATN FOR MEDIL NEGLIGENCE AND MISNDUCT

“The quiry has been rmed that, prr to Dr Gayed’s temporary appotment at Mona Vale Hospal, the director of Medil Servic obtaed a posive verbal reference om Dr Jim Wills, the then director of medil servic at Manng Hospal. There were many others who had plaed directly to the HCCC at the a while, “staff beme sensised to his poor performance”, Furns stillbirthGayed worked mostly at Manng hospal om 2007 bee he had rigned om Mona Vale hospal after learng that the Northern Sydney Central Coast area health service was vtigatg him.

EXPOSG E GAYED, THE OBSTETRICIAN WHO MUTILATED SR OF NSW WOMEN

A profsor of obstetrics, Michael Bent, who nducted an external review of the se, found: “This baby was pretty ser trouble for very nearly three hours before he died and there is to my md no evince that eher the nursg staff or Dr Gayed had any appreciatn of the serns of the suatn. Nurs did, although was also an attu that what occurred Gayed’s private rooms was irrelevant to hospal then director of clil servic, Dr Jim Wills, who also gave Gayed a posive reference before he began employment at Mona Vale hospal, was “unduly favourable to Dr Gayed, did not follow policy and mimised the serns of ncerns raised”, Furns told Furns that he relied on the Medil Board and the Medil Council to terme whether Gayed was f to practice, and did not nsir that to be his role.