Stuffhas previously reported on the incident and spoken to a fellow doctor who said Krishnan was found to have forged a student ID card and was doing cadaver dissections.
Judge Jane Forrest remanded Krishnan on bail and set a sentencing date for December.
Krishnan has been ordered not to have any contact with Te Whatu Ora staff and not to travel outside of New Zealand.
Krishnan is still under investigation by the police.
“No further charges have been laid at this stage,but as we’ve said previously we aren’t ruling out additional charges,” a police spokesperson said.
Stuff understands police searched two Auckland properties in August,connected with their investigation.
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Before taking up the job at Middlemore,Krishnan was employed at Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland,previously the Auckland District Health Board,from December 2020 until February 2022.
“During this period the individual carried out a non-clinical role under supervision. The role had no patient contact and did not require a practising certificate,” a Te Whatu Ora spokesperson said.
It is understood he worked at the Greenlane Medical Centre in a Covid-19 contact tracing team,calling high-risk people isolating with the virus.
While employed there,Krishnan was convicted of two driving charges:operating a vehicle carelessly and failing to stop or ascertain injury. He was convicted and discharged.
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However,he appealed to the High Court at Auckland,saying he was concerned about how the convictions would impact his eligibility to practise medicine in New Zealand and to train in the United States.
Krishnan provided two letters to the court to support his case – one supposedly from the Medical Council and one from James Worthy,an Auckland DHB clinic manager.
However,both the Medical Council and the DHB later said they did not provide those letters and there was no record of James Worthy working for the DHB.
He was granted a discharge without conviction.
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Counties Manukau’s chief medical officer Dr Andrew Connolly has previously said the care of every patient seen by Krishnan at Middlemore had been reviewed and a “thorough” investigation showed there had been “no compromise” to any patient’s care.
However,one of Krishnan’s patients,who is immunocompromised,has said her treatment for her serious respiratory illness had been set back months.
“I feel let down. I’m angry,” the woman said.
“I feel stupid because he fooled me. He gave me so much false hope. All his medical advice means nothing.
“It’s months of my life wasted. It’s so overwhelming.”
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