Zimbabwean doctor at centre of Grace Mugabe farm ‘gift’ charged with medical misconduct; risks being struck off by tribunal
Dr Sylvester Nyatsuro
A doctor at the centre of a 2016 farm seizure row in Zimbabwe is appearing before the UK Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) over allegations of mistreating patients.
The tribunal, underway in Manchester, is determining Dr Sylvester Nyatsuro’s fitness to practice. Allegations against him include inappropriately prescribing drugs and allowing examinations to be done by staff who were not adequately trained.
The charges relate to nine patients and cover the period between April and May 2016 when Nyatsuro was running a successful medical practice, Willows Medical Centre, in Nottingham.
That was also the same year Dr Nyatsoro, a British citizen, made international headlines after reportedly using connections with Grace Mugabe to grab a thriving tobacco farm in Centenary, using the police to force the white owners off the property.
Phillip Rankin, who was 57 at the time and had lived on Kingston Farm for some 33 years, condemned the decision to give “his land to a wealthy British doctor who does not live here”.
“It was our business – but more important than that, it was our home. We have never owned anything other than the farm and that’s gone in one weekend.
“It doesn’t make sense to me, how a doctor who lives in the UK can come and take our land.”
Son Barry, added: “We have been turfed off of our land and there is nothing we can do about it. We are devastated.”
Nyatsuro’s Nottingham practice would also be closed after inspectors discovered an unqualified assistant was allowed to pose as a doctor and carry out examinations.
The doctor formally resigned from NHS England after which his Willows Medical Centre was placed into receivership and auctioned off.
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