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Doctor who told mom to ‘go home and try for another baby’ after misdiagnosis banned for life

Gynecologist Ahmed Loutfi was dismissed for the first time in 2016

Liverpool Women's Hospital. Photo by Colin Lane
Liverpool Women’s Hospital

A former Liverpool Women’s Hospital doctor who misdiagnosed an ectopic pregnancy and told a woman to “go home and try for another baby” has been barred from permanently returning to her career.

Gynecologist Ahmed Loutfi, a locum at the Crown Street site, was struck off after making a potentially fatal error in 2010. He lost his register to work in 2016 following a doctors’ tribunal.


A mother, known only as Patient A, had to have a fallopian tube removed during surgery for an ectopic pregnancy, in which an embryo begins to develop outside the uterus . He saw the patient twice in April and May 2010, wrongly diagnosing that she had suffered a miscarriage each time.

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This was despite another doctor telling her it could be an ectopic pregnancy. Mr Loutfi then sent her home – putting her life in danger – although she defied him, and also inappropriately told the woman to “go home and try to have another baby”.


He had also previously denied the woman stronger analgesia despite the pain she was experiencing. His behavior at hospitals in Manchester, Hull and Birmingham – in the latter case, where he turned a baby’s head inappropriately, causing serious injury – between 2012 and 2013 was also considered grounds for expulsion eight years ago.

Having previously sought to return to work in 2022, the court has now blocked Mr Loutfi from attempting to work in the UK again following his serious error. A report from his latest restoration hearing contained a statement from Mr Loutfi in which he claimed he had treated Liverpool’s mother properly.

The court heard how he placed responsibility for endangering patients’ lives on “originally British doctors” and considered the 2016 decision unfair as he was a foreign doctor, and This was an act of discrimination. Mr Loutfi said he should be put back on the medical register because he had committed no clinical misconduct and had kept his skills up to date.


He said his behavior, both professional and personal, was of a high standard and that he had evidence to prove he had been honest “at all times” during the 30 years he had been in the job and also since 2016. Mr Loutfi said that by not reinstating him According to the medical register, the General Medical Council was putting the lives of UK residents at risk.

This was not enough to convince the tribunal members, who rejected his request and indefinitely suspended Dr. Loutfi’s right to reapply for restoration.