An eye specialist at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital has been suspended for negligence for three months after letting a shuttle bus driver continue work despite an eye condition that caused him to fall short of the standards for driving.
The eye specialist, Dr Sanjay Srinivasan was convicted of two counts of “serious negligence” and will be suspended until 26 October.
Dr Sanjay allowed the patitent to resume driving despite knowing that the patient did not meet the requirement for bus drivers with a Group 2 license.
The Singapore Medical Council’s disciplinary tribunal found that Dr Sanjay assumed that the patient would meet the standards based on a pinhole test instead of using the manifest refraction test which is accepted as the gold standard test.
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