A surgeon banned from operating at a children’s heart unit at the centre of a scandal over high death rates was previously investigated over his practice.

Sri Lankan-born Nihal Weerasena is the doctor who agreed to stop carrying out operations at Leeds General Infirmary two weeks ago while bosses investigated concerns over his abilities.

But Dr Weerasena also previously stood aside in 2005 after the hospital identified problems relating to a procedure he was carrying out to repair a congenital heart defect.

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Source: Daily Mail(UK)
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