A 62-year-old Nigerian medical practitioner Dr Christopher Uwagboe is currently under fire in Britain for refusing to help an 88-year-old woman who fell and knocked herself unconscious in front of his surgery office on Sept 18. Dr Uwagboe says he couldn’t help the lady because he was not ‘first-aid trained.
According to Daily Mail, the 88-year-old woman Iris Henderson had just got off a bus when she collapsed, cutting her head and injuring her arm. Passer-by Jane Batchelor found her knocked out and dashed into the practice to ask for help, but said staff were ‘completely uninterested’.
When she persisted, locum Christopher Uwagboe was approached, but he refused to leave his office. Staff even declined to supply a blanket to make Mrs Henderson comfortable until an ambulance came. The widow was eventually taken to hospital where she remains more than a week later.
The Royal College of GPs last night said members were not automatically trained in first aid but there is a ‘Good Samaritan principle’ under which all British doctors have medical indemnity whoever they treat, even if it is not one of their patients.
Dr Uwagboe graduated from the University of Benin in 1977 and trained at the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. He qualified in 1989 and moved on to the GP register in 2006.
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