New BrunswickA New Brunswick doctor now faces three charges alleging he sexually assaulted patients while working at a hospital in Nova Scotia earlier this year.Sanjeev Sirpal, 39, worked in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia hospitalsShane Magee · CBC News · Posted: Nov 17, 2025 12:08 PM EST | Last Updated: 15 minutes agoListen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Charges against Dr. Sanjeev Sirpal relate to his time working at the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre in the Amherst area of Nova Scotia. (NB Lung website)A New Brunswick doctor now faces three charges alleging he sexually assaulted patients while working at a hospital in Nova Scotia earlier this year.Dr. Sanjeev Sirpal, 39, was originally charged in August with one count of sexual assault. RCMP have laid two additional charges alleging sexual assaults. Police allege the assaults occurred during patient exams while he worked at the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre near Amherst, N.S., in January and March this year.Sirpal was scheduled to make his first appearance on the charges in Amherst provincial court on Monday. Defence lawyer Stan MacDonald appeared by phone on his behalf. MacDonald said they didn’t have complete disclosure of the Crown’s evidence and asked for an adjournment. The cases are scheduled to return to court Dec. 22. MacDonald sent a statement to CBC News saying “Dr. Sirpal denies any wrongdoing, and will be defending these allegations in court.”The appearance followed RCMP in Nova Scotia last week announcing additional charges were pending against Sirpal in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.”These new charges are also associated to his employment as a doctor in hospital emergency rooms,” the RCMP said in a news release that referred to both Edmundston, in northwestern New Brunswick, and Sackville, in the southeast.Police in Edmundston charged him Friday. That charge alleges he sexually assaulted a person in August this year. That case returns to court Dec. 16.At the time, Sirpal worked at the Edmundston Regional Hospital. He no longer works there. RCMP say Sirpal is also expected to appear in Moncton provincial court on Feb. 27.Can’t practise in 3 provincesThe College of Physicians and Surgeons of New Brunswick suspended Sirpal’s licence to practise in the province in August after he was charged in Nova Scotia.The college’s physician registry listed his office in the Edmundston Regional Hospital. He specializes in family medicine. Nova Scotia Health previously told CBC that Sirpal worked “intermittent emergency department shifts” in Nova Scotia on a locum basis between September 2023 and March 2025.He has not been licensed to practise in Nova Scotia since March.In 2022, Sirpal’s licence to practise in Quebec was revoked by the Quebec College of Physicians.The Quebec college was investigating a 2020 allegation that Sirpal conducted vaginal and breast exams on a Montreal woman with a head injury, which he denied, when it found he had lied about his academic background in obtaining his licence in 2019. ABOUT THE AUTHORShane Magee is a Moncton-based reporter for CBC News.
Doctor now faces 3 charges alleging sexual assaults at N.S. hospital
