A GP is facing the music for illegally prescribing Viagra to family friends.
Seventy-seven-year-old Ahmed Jamil, who is facing being struck off for the illegal act, used false NHS prescriptions to supply friends with the anti-impotence drug after a pair he knew came to him for help.
The doctor said the two were “very good friends” and he agreed to prescribe the man with the tablets, although he was not a patient.
Jamil, a rotary club member, was held after pharmacists discovered the prescriptions were not genuine.
The doctor – who worked at a surgery in Abergele – told a Manchester medical tribunal that he acted “selflessly”.
“I always help other people, putting them before me. The medical practice I conducted was entirely selfless,” Jamil was quoted as saying in The Daily Telegraph.
Last year Jamil – a former councillor and magistrate from Llanfair Talhaiarn, North Wales – pleaded guilty to fraud and was given a two-year conditional discharge.
The hearing continues.
