Surgeon denies surrogate mum claim
Inquest told that a nurse who leapt to her death was asked by doctor to carry a child
The former head of surgery at the University of Hong Kong medical faculty denied yesterday that he had asked a former colleague - who later jumped to her death - to be a surrogate mother.
Professor Fan Sheung-tat was responding to an allegation by Kwan Miu-ying's mother, Li Kam-fung, at the inquest into the death of the 38-year-old nurse.
Li told the Coroner's Court on Monday that a professor, whom she did not name, had asked her daughter to be a surrogate mother in 2008.
"I have never taken the initiative to contact [Kwan] from the outset," Fan told the court yesterday.
The court also heard that Kwan harassed Fan, who was known as the "father of liver transplants", for three years before she jumped to her death at Tung Wah Hospital in Sheung Wan in June last year.
He said Kwan had once expressed her love for him and kissed him in the corridor at Queen Mary Hospital, but he did not accept it and pushed her away.
The continuous harassment between 2008 and 2011 also included sitting on the bonnet of his car to stop him leaving the hospital's car park, and sneaking into his car, the court heard.