Stripped of med license after scandal, Hayden Kho now a doc again

After getting stripped of his medical license for getting embroiled in a sex scandal, Hayden Kho Jr. is now a doctor again.

 

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) has reinstated the medical license of the controversial personality, Board of Medicine chairman Dr. Miguel Noche confirmed to GMA News Online in an interview on Tuesday.
 

Noche said the move was approved in Board Resolution No. 65 series of 2014, which took effect on Monday.

 

He added that Kho applied for the reinstatement of his medical license in December 2013.

 

Noche explained that the board decided to reinstate Kho's license after he was deemed elligible to practice medicine.

 

He also said that among the requirements for reinstatement was not getting involved in any illegal or immoral act during the application process, which Kho complied with.

 

But Kho won't be able to enjoy all the benefits of his medical license unless he gets the proper requirements.

 

“I told him he must have adequate education, training and certification by the corresponding board before he practices any specialty procedures,” Noche said.

 

In 2011, Kho was stripped of his license after an administrative complaint was filed before the PRC by Katrina Halili, who appeared in a sex video with Kho that spread online in 2009.

 

"It is difficult to accept and it’s painful, because I’m losing my medical license not because of lack of knowledge or skills or even lack of dedication to my profession, but because of what I did in my personal life. I am not saying what I did was not wrong, but I appeal for fairness..." Kho told GMA News at the time.

 

In 2012, the Court of Appeals upheld the PRC's move to revoke Kho's license. - JST, GMA News