A Montreal family doctor has vowed to stop practicing medicine after he admitted to fathering a child with a 19-year-old woman who was his patient.
Dr. Joseph Mbea Bitchoka, who has been registered with Quebec’s College of physicians since July 13, 1984, admitted to the affair after the young woman filed a complaint.
According to an agreed statement of facts filed with the Collège des médecins du Québec, the doctor has been the sole practitioner of his clinic since 2012 and had been treating upwards of 2,000 patients, most of whom were elderly.
The complainant, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, began seeing him in 2018 in his office which was next to his home. In 2022, she began having sexual relations with Bitchoka and in November 2023, she gave birth to a child “of which he acknowledges being the father,” the document stated.
Her parents, one of …