Photograph: Getty ImagesA fitness-to-practise Medical Council inquiry heard that “it beggars belief” that a doctor would practise medicine without appropriate professional indemnity insurance. In a submission by Ray Motherway, Al-Maliky’s barrister, the inquiry heard he was absent due to ill-health and receiving treatment in the United Kingdom. It was alleged he did not have appropriate insurance on one or more dates between January 2015 and July 2017 while working at eight centric health practices in Co Dublin. The inquiry heard from a “Dr X” whose identity was anonymised at the direction of the committee and who works at Centric Health in Donaghmede. X said that a locum doctor at the practice in September 2023 noticed Al-Maliky prescribed oestrogen to a patient without also prescribing progesterone.

Source: The Irish Times February 20, 2026 20:32 UTC