A GP has been struck off after he set up an unregistered clinic and claimed he could cure cancer by injecting patients with garlic oil, charging patients £15,000. 

Dr Mohsen Ali, who studied at Cairo University, charged patients thousands of pounds to be 'treated' in a room of his 'squalid and unsanitary' council house. 

The GP, who was fully registered for 11 years, told one patient the disease would be so easy to cure that he would give him a refund if he failed, a tribunal heard. 

He was also paid at least £10,000 from a terminally ill woman who had been told there was nothing more that could be done for her by medical professionals. 

Dr Ali, also claimed the NHS was trying to kill patients and that hospitals only wanted to take their money, as he claimed that he aimed to cure 90 per cent of cancer cases.

When he was reported, police discovered liquids used during treatments were not stored in sterile conditions, with some found in a Halfords box, a tribunal was told

Meanwhile, one patient said Dr Ali would inject him with fluids and was 'evasive' when queried on the ingredients, other than the Vitamin C and garlic oil included.  

Treatment sessions took place at the GPs council house, which was described as 'squalid, unprofessional, neglected and highly inappropriate' by an expert. 

Ozone therapy - a controversial form of alternative medicine - was sometimes performed at the semi-detached home, which was shared with a household upstairs. 

An 'old, decaying' mattress could be seen in the garden, and there were no separate kitchen or toilet facilities for the patients. 

One of the patients said that when he removed the cannula, blood would spurt out and could have easily gone on other people in the room.

A tribunal has now decided to strike him off the medical register due to his 'fundamental breach of the tenets of the profession'.

Dr Ali began working in the UK 2001, where he held a full licence from 2004 until it was eventually withdrawn in 2015.  

Despite this, the GP treated two patients who had cancer between January and September 2018.  

Both the patients, one of whom was terminally ill, had been recommended to him as a doctor who could help treat cancer.

He informed both patients that he could cure their cancer and charged one patient £15,000 and the other between £10,000 and £12,000 for his services.

Dr Ali advertised himself as a doctor with GP experience, claiming to have a target to achieve a 90 per cent cure rate for cancer as well as other illnesses. 

'In the name of Allah the best healer, we aim to achieve over 90 per cent cure rate in the most challenging illnesses e.g. Cancer (Malignant Tumours),' his flyer read. 

One patient, known only as Patient A, had stage three prostate cancer and was told by Dr Ali that their 'cancer can be easily cured'.

Several specialists had previously told him that surgery was the most effective option, but he was 'desperate' to find an alternative due to the potential side effects.

When they first spoke on the phone, Dr Ali laughed and said that prostate cancer was so easy to cure that he would give him his money back if he could not eliminate the illness.

He later advised him not to listen to the doctors in the NHS hospital as they were 'just trying to make money' from chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

It was later found that he would have been aware of the lack of evidence supporting his treatment for cancer.

Patient A said Dr Ali would inject him with fluids but refused to say what was in them, other than Vitamin C and garlic oil, and was 'evasive' when asked about the ingredients.

Another one of the GP's patients shortly after undergoing treatment with Dr Ali in 2018. 

The husband of Patient B explained his wife had initially been diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2015 and had undergone surgery as well as treatment with the NHS.  

However, when the disease returned in January 2018 and she was told there was nothing more that could be done, she turned to Dr Ali for help.  

Dr Ali had said that instead of curing people, the NHS was killing them and that he would be able to treat the terminal cancer.

He took payment of between £10,000 and £12,000 from the terminally unwell woman, which her husband later realised was done under a 'false pretence'.

He later administered substances to her that included Vitamin C, oxygenated water, ozone treatment and sodium bicarbonate.

In June 2019, a concern was raised with the General Medical Council by one of his patients, and a crime report was made by Leicestershire Police the following month.  

When interviewed, he acknowledged that he was not registered but said that he did not need to be as all his work was therapeutic.

He said he does a 'herbal natural treatment', cupping and provides faith Koran healing.

Dr Ali did not attend the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service [MPTS] hearing where Patient A said he was 'very angry' with the way he had been treated.

Dr Ali was struck off following the tribunal due to his 'high and ongoing risk to public protection'.

Nessa Sharkett, chair of the MPTS, concluded: 'The Tribunal determined that Dr Ali poses a high and ongoing risk to public protection and that his fitness to practise is, therefore currently impaired by reason of misconduct.

'The Tribunal was satisfied that Dr Ali poses a continuing risk to the health, safety and wellbeing of the public.

'The Tribunal found that he misled vulnerable cancer patients into paying substantial sums for non-evidenced based treatment, practised without a licence, used unsafe and unhygienic premises, failed to obtain informed consent, failed to provide adequate information about treatment, risks and side effects, failed to keep adequate records and in Patient A's case caused delay in obtaining appropriate evidence-based treatment.

'He exploited the trust inherent in his position as a registered doctor, falsely advertised cancer cure claims, misled patients about his licence status and about treatment and used his professional standing to obtain money from vulnerable patients.

'Dr Ali breached fundamental tenets of the profession, including honesty, integrity, patient-centred care, informed consent, safe prescribing and administration, clear record keeping and maintaining trust.

'The most serious sanction was necessary in this case as the only appropriate and proportionate sanction capable of fulfilling the need to protect the public and the wider public interest.'