A doctor has been suspended and a specialist taskforce set up after the death of a woman during a routine procedure uncovered “grave concerns” for public safety.
The watchdog said it had established a specialist team to lead a coordinated examination of the concerns raised, which it said involved multiple practitioners across a number of professions and practice locations.Harjit Kaur, with her husband Sukhjinder Singh. Kaur, who lived in Narre Warren South, had just started a new job working as an IT executive at Nike when she died. She had been preparing to buy a new home with her husband Sukhjinder Singh to raise their two children, aged four and two.
“We are so saddened. Our lives were destroyed in a minute. We would have desired that this investigation happened before January, before we lost our beautiful Harjit,” it read.