A Medical Council Fitness to Practise Inquiry is looking into the conduct of Dr Peter Van Geene at Aut Even Private Hospital, Kilkenny.
Patient C said she asked Dr Van Geene after her hysterectomy whether her ovaries had been removed, but he didn't know as he didn’t_ t have his notes present.
The woman, who_ s in her 60s, has just been informed today, almost four years after the surgery, that they were not removed.
The hearing concerns four patients who had hysterectomies between 2009 and 2011, and will continue until Monday.
