A DOCTOR who wrongly advised a patient to undergo an abortion was struck off the medical register for six months yesterday.
A Medical Council inquiry heard that Dr Maria Chan Mei-ying advised Lee Chung-oi to terminate her eight-week pregnancy when she visited her Yuen Long clinic in July last year.
Ms Lee, now 23, said Dr Chan told her that a chest X-ray she had had a month previously might have damaged the foetus and that she should have an abortion.
But after seeking a second medical opinion, Ms Lee continued with the pregnancy and gave birth to a normal, healthy baby boy in February this year.
Ms Lee told the inquiry: ''Dr Chan told me not to have the baby because it might be disabled, and I was very upset and worried about my baby as well as my own health.
''I do not think she should be a doctor . . . if I could not have taken the pressure I would have killed myself.'' Dr Andrew Ho Chung-yin, an obstetrician and gynaecologist who looked after Ms Lee for the rest of her pregnancy, told the inquiry the risk to the foetus as a result of the X-ray was negligible.