RCMP say Dr. Sanjeev Sirpal was arrested August 14 and charged with sexual assault. This following an incident involving a patient at the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre in January. He was released on conditions pending a first court appearance scheduled for November 15 at an Amherst provincial court. Cumberland County District RCMP is encouraging anyone who may have had inappropriate contact with Sirpal to come forward.
Sanjeev Sirpal was admitted to the College of Physicians in April 2019 and began working for the Montreal North health and social services centre (CIUSSS du Nord de l’Ile de Montreal). In 2022 The Quebec College of Physicians revoked his medical license for providing false information about his academic history. Sirpal failed to disclose his misconduct and ethical issues from his time at the University of Miami, where he was dismissed, and his expulsion from a PhD program at Johns Hopkins University. The ruling stated that Sirpal knowingly provided inaccurate information on his application, despite claiming he answered to the best of his knowledge. The college determined he systematically concealed facts that could have impacted his admission to practice as a family medicine specialist.
Sirpal was dismissed from the University of Miami after allegations of misconduct and an ethical issue arose. Sirpal “sees it as an issue of ethnic discrimination.” He didn’t disclose this information when being admitted to a PhD program in biochemistry and molecular biology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He was expelled from Johns Hopkins. Sirpal went to St. Lucia, received his MD in 2013 from the Spartan Health School of Medicine and moved to Ontario and worked as a researcher at Brampton City Hospital in Ontario. He then studied at the University of Toronto in 2016. The college found that “the respondent’s deceptions and half-truths ‘corrupted’ the process of his admission to the profession.”
Sirpal began practising in New Brunswick in March 2024, with conditions requiring a chaperone during any intimate examinations and detailed documentation of those encounters. These conditions suggest he has had previous allegations of sexual misconduct with patients.
The two following restrictions are under his profile:
- can only conduct intimate examinations of a patient’s sexual organs or breasts, regardless of their gender, in the presence of a chaperone
- must explain to the patient, in the presence of the chaperone, the rationale for the intimate examination and document this discussion and the identity of the chaperone in the chart
Cops believe there may be more victims in Nova Scotia and other places where Sirpal has practised, including Quebec and New Brunswick, where he is now employed.
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