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Hearing begins on doctor's C-section 'blunder'

A CONSULTANT is facing allegations that he failed to give a local anaesthetic to a patient undergoing a Caesarean section.

Dr Jacques Henri Jean Marie Vallet was working as a locum consultant anaesthetist in a hospital in West Lothian when it is alleged that he failed to give the treatment to the woman before she underwent the surgical procedure.