In a case that could make her lose her medical license,a senior Indian-origin doctor took her heavily pregnant daughter to Spain for a late-term abortion,the General Medical Council has been told. Dr Saroj Adlakha allegedly paid a clinic in Barcelona 2,880 pounds to terminate her daughters 31-week pregnancy in 2003,while the legal limit for abortion in Britain is 24 weeks. The allegations surfaced five years ago when undercover reporters from The Sunday Telegraph filmed Adlakha admitting having flown her 18-year-old daughter to the Ginemedex Clinic in Barcelona for a late abortion. Dr Adlakha faces a GMC hearing charged with irresponsible,inappropriate and dishonest misconduct. Since being suspended more than four years ago,Adlakha has cost taxpayers 600,000 pounds,including her salary and payments for two locum doctors. She and her daughter were charged with conspiracy to commit child destruction abroad in 2005,but the case was dropped in 2007. She was suspended by the GMC in February 2005 over allegations of misconduct. Adlakha told her practice receptionist that she could lose her license for helping her daughter arrange the abortion after returning from Spain,the tribunal heard. She must have been very well aware of the seriousness and the potential consequences to her as a doctor, Heather Norton,representing the GMC,was quoted as saying by the Paper.
