A gynaecologist who uses laser surgery to enhance women's sex lives botched surgery on five patients and left one of them fighting for her life, a medical disciplinary panel was told. Dr Phanuel Dartey showed a lack of care in operating on the women which led to them having 'unforeseen and distressing consequences'. The Ghanaian surgeon, who qualified medically in the former Soviet Union, is alleged to be guilty of misconduct in relation to his treatment of four patients at his private Harley Street clinic and another at the Marie Stopes International Clinic in Ealing, London, where he worked part-time. Dr Dartey made headlines in several newspaper and magazine articles two years ago with reports of his 'G-Shot' jabs which are said to be able to enlarge the G-spot. It has also been reported that he abdicated his position of king of a tribal kingdom in Ghana to pursue his medical career. A General Medical Council panel, sitting in Manchester, said the case against him partly focused on his use of laser treatment in cosmetic female genital surgery. He would use a technique called laser vaginal rejuvenation (LVR) to heighten sexual gratification and another labelled designer laser vaginoplasty to improve the aesthetics of the vagina, the hearing was told. Heather Norton, representing the GMC, said: 'LVR may perhaps be described as a growing trend but is not one that is part of accepted mainstream plastic surgery in this country.' She said the panel may or not form a view whether any doctor should be performing this type of surgery but its merits, or lack of, did not form part of her case. The four complainants who attended the Queen Anne Street Medical Centre in London between January 2008 and February 2009 were all self-referrals, she said. Patient A was said to have suffered visible scarring and asymmetry of her private parts following surgery. She required revision surgery as part of her vagina had been ' effectively amputated', Ms Norton said. Patients B and C were inappropriately given laser surgery for urinary incontinence, which experts for the GMC will say would have been of 'limited value' to them. Ms Norton said Patient E was in 'significant pain' after Dr Dartey conducted a labioplasty on her. She had several post-operation consultations with him and was eventually given two options, she added. 'Dr Dartey suggested doing nothing and reviewing it in six months or to inject absolute alcohol to kill the nerve endings,' she said. The latter method was 'entirely inappropriate' the GMC would Dr Dartey treated Patient D - a woman who travelled from Ireland to the Marie Stopes Clinic - for a pregnancy termination at 18 weeks gestation. He left parts of the foetus inside her which led to her suffering a perforated uterus, she said. 'When she returned home she became extremely ill,' Ms Norton 'She was on the critical list and was in hospital for two months.' Dr Dartey is said to have not held valid medical indemnity insurance when he carried out the termination. The doctor, from Enfield, North Lodnon, is not present at the fitness to practise hearing, scheduled to last two weeks.