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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Helen Pidd North of England editor and agencies

Doctor to keep job after illicit visit to ICU ward during UK Covid lockdown

The Wythenshawe hospital in south Manchester
The Wythenshawe hospital in south Manchester. Photograph: Mark Waugh/Alamy

A doctor accused of bluffing his way on to an intensive care unit (ICU) during the Covid pandemic to visit a critically ill relative is to keep his job, a tribunal has decided, after he claimed he did not know he was flouting lockdown rules.

Trainee GP Ashbal Chaudhary, 30, had faced being struck off after he turned up at a hospital without prior authorisation wearing medical scrubs and a stethoscope at a time when visits to patients from loved ones were banned.

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