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UK surgeon remains suspended a year after saying governments are using Covid to control people

Dr Mohammad Iqbal Adil made the statements in online videos.

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Last year, the UK medical register suspended a consultant surgeon for 12 months pending an investigation by the General Medical Council (GMC) for posting on social media that Covid-19 was being used by elites to control the world.

Colleagues wrote to the organization arguing he should not have been suspended for his personal opinion.

Mohammad Iqbal Adil, a Pakistan-born British doctor, has worked in the NHS for almost three decades. An interim orders tribunal suspended him for a year because of videos he posted on social media.

The doctor expressed โ€œhis point of view on the Covid-19 pandemic and the far-reaching effects of the lockdown on the economy, public health and wellbeing,โ€ his campaign page states.

A spokesperson for the GMC at the time said: โ€œThe interim orders tribunal imposed an interim suspension on Dr Adilโ€™s registration, following our referral, to protect patients and public confidence. This interim suspension remains in place while we consider concerns about Dr Adilโ€™s fitness to practice.โ€

Some of his colleagues launched a petition on Change.org calling on the GMC to reinstate Dr. Adil. The petition argues that the GMC should have given him a chance to reflect on the videos โ€œwhen the entire world is confused about the novel virus.โ€

The petition also noted that he had a family to support, adding, โ€œUK needs doctors to work. It would not be in the best interest of the public and health system to lose [an] experienced and highly qualified surgeon like him.

โ€œWe, the doctors community within [the] UK and across the world, feel that itโ€™s injustice to suspend Mr Adil on his personal point of view on the covid-19 without giving him [a] chance to reflect upon his video before enforcing suspension.

โ€œWe request to the GMC to revoke his unfair 12 months suspension . . . and allow him fair chance to work in this country [for the benefit of] the health system, communities, and medical graduates.โ€

โ€œDr Adil has been making a stand for freedom of speech for all doctors and nurses to speak their truth without fear of recrimination or persecution,โ€ his campaign page states.