A suspended local doctor is set to resume practice at new clinics amid sex-assault allegations, according to the national medical board.
Former Ocean Grove GP Shafiul Milky won the right to work again after the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) granted an interim stay of his suspension in November.
The Medical Board of Australia (MBA) suspended Dr Milky’s registration last September pending the outcome of investigations into allegations he assaulted female patients.
But VCAT determined the suspension was hurting Dr Milky’s finances, with a stay lifting his ban until a further hearing next March.
Dr Milky can now practice at three “approved” locations in Colac and Mount Clear, according to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency’s (AHPRA) website.
But Dr Milky remains under gender-based restrictions and is unable to conduct home visits, according to AHPRA.
“The effect of the stay is to cease the operation of the suspension of the practitioner’s registration by the board from the date of the tribunal’s decision,” the AHPRA website states.
“After publication of approved practice locations the practitioner must not have any contact with female patients and must only practise at approved practice locations.”
The national medical board banned Dr Milky from seeing female patients in March last year before his employer the Peninsula Family Medical Practice sacked him in July.
The MBA ordered the ban following a third complaint against Dr Milky last February, before another nine complaints later surfaced between June and August, dating back to 2014.
The alleged “serious sexual boundary violations” included touching patients’ breasts when “not clinically indicated”, attempting to kiss a patient, and making sexualised remarks, VCAT heard in November.
Dr Milky has denied all the allegations. Both police and AHPRA are investigating the claims.
