TWO DOCTORS from the same medical practice have been suspended by the medical watchdog within three weeks of each other.
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The website of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) shows it has suspended Maged Adib Khalil.
The regulator's website indicates a national board can suspend a practitioner's registration if it believes there is serious risk to the health and safety of the public from the practitioner's continued practice, and it is necessary to protect the public from that risk.
The reason for the suspension is not known. Dr Khalil could not be contacted for comment and it is not known whether he will exercise his right to appeal.
The ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal has not published a decision relating to the doctor, which suggests the decision to suspend was done immediately by the ACT Medical Board (a board overseen by AHPRA).
Belconnen Medical Centre lists Dr Khalil as one of its general practitioners.
The same medical centre was also the workplace of Ammar Dhaimat, who has appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court in recent weeks to face an allegation of an act of indecency and a claim he was wanted by Interpol.
Early this month, Dr Dhaimat was released on bail under strict conditions that forbid him from contacting patients of the Belconnen Medical Centre.
He was soon suspended by the medical board and his profile is no longer on the medical centre's website.
The centre's website still features Dr Khalil and says the doctor has a master's degree in emergency medicine and 20 years of experience working in emergency departments in hospitals around the world.
It said he had worked as an emergency specialist in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. ''After many years as an emergency department career medical officer at Wagga Base Hospital he has joined the Belconnen Medical Centre as a GP,'' the website said.
The AHPRA website lists him as speaking Arabic, Spanish and French as well as English, and gives Dr Khalil's principal place of practice as Lyneham.