Bermuda Medical Council will take legal advice at a meeting next week regarding arrested physician Mahesh Reddy.

Council chairman George Shaw told The Royal Gazette that Dr Reddy’s arrest and release on police bail would be top of the agenda when the full council meets on June 9.

Dr Reddy is understood to still be seeing patients at Bermuda Healthcare Services, where he is medical director, after his arrest in connection with a financial investigation being conducted by police.

Dr Shaw said no complaint had been made about the GP’s conduct to the council, which regulates the island’s doctors, but it was aware of his arrest and would seek advice from lawyer Jeffrey Elkinson, the council’s legal representative. “My understanding is that at this point, given the circumstances, there is nothing for us to do until we meet and formally look at it,” said Dr Shaw.

“We will be doing that. I am sure it will be at the top of the list.”

He added: “I have been on the council for quite a while. This is a first.”

The law governing doctors is the Medical Practitioners’ Act, which was amended earlier this year. Dr Reddy is a longstanding physician with Bermuda Healthcare Services, which was founded by the former Premier, Ewart Brown, the executive chairman.

A police spokesman told this newspaper: “A 42-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an ongoing financial investigation.

“He since has been released on police bail while further inquiries are being made.”

Dr Reddy is treasurer of the Bermuda Medical Doctors’ Association and, according to the website of Bermuda Healthcare Services, a member of the Indian Medical Council.

He was registered to practise medicine in September 2000, according to the official list of Bermuda’s registered physicians.

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