A prominent Townsville doctor has been stood down after having sex with a patient and fathering a child with another. Dr Praveen Kumar, director of the My Family Doctors at Kirwan, has had his registration suspended on August 30 after an investigation by Health Ombudsman Leon Atkinson-MacEwen. The allegations relate to two women Dr Kumar had hired as staff, treated as patients and engaged in sexual relationships with, with the first complaint filed in 2015 and another in July this year.