AN anaesthetist who botched his role in an operation on a nine-year-old girl has been struck off by his professional body.
The General Medical Council (GMC) panel has determined that Dr Mariyappan Balasubramanian be erased from the medical register.
He now has 28 days to appeal the decision, but has been suspended and cannot practice during that time.
A GMC fitness to practise hearing had earlier ruled that Dr Balasubramanian, 66, did not make any notes about the girl's blood loss until prompted by consultant Dr James Fenwick, during surgery at the former Blackburn Royal Infirmary.
The four-strong GMC panel was also satisfied that the girl, who lost 30 per cent of her blood supply, needed three units of blood and one litre of gelatin solution, as a result of the doctor's actions, following the September 2004 operation.
The doctor, who had worked in East Lancashire for nearly 30 years, had failed an assessment at Burnley General Hospital, the hearing heard.
The panel previously found that Dr Balasubramanian had mixed the wrong drugs for a spinal treatment, and confused two different kinds of hysterectomy, during this assessment.
The GMC also ruled that he was guilty of giving double the correct dose of morphine to a patient.
Dr Balasubramanian had claimed that he was suffering from stress at the time of the incidents and had not been made aware of any support services available at the hospital trust.
He denied serious professional misconduct.
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