According to express UK, Locum
psychiatrist Dr Julius Awakame had heard a woman had a personality disorder and
a history of “satanic ritual abuse”.
During a consultation at a
health centre in Harwich, Essex, he said her problems could not be solved by
conventional treatment.
The NHS
doctor advised a patient to get help from a church-run TV channel based in
Nigeria after claiming she might be possessed by demonic forces.
Instead of medical
treatment he gave her the name of the 24-hour TV station run by a church in
Lagos, a medical tribunal hearing in Manchester was told.
Dr Awakame, 50, told her
“neither psychiatry not psychology” would be able to help her because “there
are special forces at play”.
When psychiatric nurse
Martin Rowe later asked Dr Awakame whether the woman, named only as Patient A,
was possessed, he replied: “She may well be.”
He claimed she had been
thrown out of her local church because of her condition.
An investigation into his
behaviour was launched by North Essex Partnership Foundation Trust and Dr
Awakame was sacked and reported to the General Medical Council.
Dr Awakame, who has since
returned to his native Ghana, now faces being struck off after he was found
guilty in his absence of misconduct.
At the consultation, which
took place in January 2014, he told Patient A she had been “initiated through
satanic ritual” and wrote down a website for her to access.
He told her the church-run
TV station was “specifically targeted for people who experienced similar
situations”.
He also told Patient A he
had watched the TV station and said there were “many people who had similar
problems” to her.
The patient said Dr Awakame
told her to ask the church to send her some “nice holy water” to help with her
problems but that claim was dismissed by tribunal chairman David Kyle.
Dr Awakame, who worked in
various hospitals in the NHS from 1997 to 2014, is now a lecturer in health
information in Ghana.
In an email to the
tribunal, he said he had left clinical medicine and did not have the “time or
resources” to be involved in the proceedings.
Express UK
Orisirisi
ReplyDeletewher does he think he is? Africa?
ReplyDeleteGlad he no longer practise as medical doctor.
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