A Tecumseh doctor has had his licence to practice medicine revoked.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario took Dr. Haider Hasnain's licence away on Monday morning at a penalty hearing in Toronto. Hasnain also has to pay $16,000 into a victim therapy program and has to reimburse the college $20,500 for the cost of all of the hearings. College spokesperson Shae Greenfield said the violation will be on his permanent record, and the college will notify other national and international medical regulatory bodies that he can no longer practice medicine in Ontario.
In January, Hasnain was found guilty of sexually abusing a patient and had his licence suspended. The college found that Dr. Hasnain “committed an act of professional misconduct when he engaged in the sexual abuse of a patient and that he has engaged in conduct that would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional.” The college discovered that sometime in May of 2009, Dr. Hasnain and a patient in her 50s started a sexual relationship that continued to either December of 2009 or January of 2010 and included approximately eight to 10 meetings for mutual oral sex and one occasion of sexual intercourse, as well as other sexual activity, including mutual sexual touching.
The hearing panel said all of the sexual interactions occurred in one room in the clinic, except one encounter that occurred elsewhere in the clinic. The final sexual encounter was the sexual intercourse that took place either in late December of 2009 or early January of 2010.
The patient started videotaping all of her encounters with Dr. Hasnain on June 5, 2009 without his knowledge.
The college added a physician-patient relationship between them began on February 6, 2009 and continued until at least September 4, 2009.
The 54-year-old physician practiced at the Tecumseh Medical Centre.
