India, May 9 -- A surgeon from a Beijing hospital has been dismissed and expelled from the Communist Party following revelations by his wife about extramarital affairs-some of which resulted in pregnancies and abortions-according to a report by the South China Morning Post.

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According to the outlet, the controversy began in mid-April when a tip-off letter written by the surgeon's wife, Dr Gu, herself a physician at another leading hospital, went viral on mainland Chinese social media. The letter accused her husband, Xiao Fei, a 39-year-old chest surgeon at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, of engaging in a series of affairs with colle...