New Delhi, May 27 -- Indian-origin neurosurgeon Dr Chirag Patel has come under scrutiny in the United Kingdom after a medical tribunal suspended him for eight months over misconduct involving a vulnerable patient.

Dr Patel worked at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff and specialised in neurosurgery, including neuromodulation procedures and paediatric neurosurgery. Tribunal records show he qualified as a medical doctor from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in India in 1994 before moving to the United Kingdom in 2002.

According to tribunal documents, he completed his MS in General Surgery at the Government Medical College of Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 1998. He later became a fellow of the Royal College of Surge...