Organisation reveals outcome of votes by registered doctors
Nauman Nabi, a urology consultant in University Hospital Limerick, was elected in the category of doctors “not falling within any of the other categories”. Mr Nabi, president of the Association of Irish Pakistani Physicians and Surgeons, obtained 1,751 votes and finished comfortably ahead of five other candidates.
In the specialist division for obstetrics and gynaecology, Prof Deirdre Murphy defeated her colleague at the Coombe Hospital, Dr Carmen Regan, by 1,819 votes to 1,683.controversy over family members of staff receiving Covid-19 vaccineProf Murphy, who is also the chair of obstetrics at Trinity College Dublin, called on the master of the hospital, Prof Michael O’Connell, to resign over the incident, while Dr Regan was one of those who took doses home to vaccinate family members.
The fourth position on the Medical Council, in the anaesthesia specialist division, was taken by its current president, Dr Suzanne Crowe. She was elected with 1,757 votes, ahead of three other candidates. No candidates were deemed eligible for election in two election categories, pathology or radiology, and public health medicine. The council said these categories will be filled at a later date, by co-option.
The Medical Council is made up of 25 members, six of them elected, five appointed by the Minister for Health through the public appointments service, one nominated by the Minister for Higher Education, two nominated by the HSE, two by medical schools and nine by a variety of health organisations.The newly elected members will begin their term in June.
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