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  1. agw
    Administrator

    ALL eight people so far arrested in connection with car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow have links to the NHS.
    Seven are believed to be doctors or trainee doctors while the one woman under arrest is a trained laboratory researcher.

    A man arrested at Brisbane Airport on Tuesday was identified as Dr Mohammed Haneef, 27, who once worked at hospitals in Cheshire. Dr Haneef, 27, who was arrested at Brisbane Airport where he had been due to catch a flight on Monday night. One more man, also a doctor with links to Cheshire, is being questioned by police in Australia.

  2. A QUIET little word, if I may. The wards of all British Hospital Trusts are staffed by junior doctors from many different nations.

    The deal is they work long hours, improve their medical skills and either stay in the NHS system; go on to highly-paid jobs elsewhere or, in some rare cases, return to their own, often war-torn, countries to help their fellow citizens.
    The other side of the deal is: our creaking health service lurches along and continues to exist because these doctors are helping us and our fellow citizens to survive.

    Many of us are grateful to the NHS and regular readers and contributors are acutely aware of the battle facing the wife and family of one of our favourites here. He has already spoken up in praise of the service and care being given to his wife and himself so there is no point in repeating it.

    I have no wish to pre-judge or analyse the weird thought processes of those alleged to have been involved in the Glasgow (partially successful) and London (miserable failure) bombings. That's for wiser judicial heads.

    We have our own little star turns as doctors. Remember one Doctor Harold Shipman?
    Now there was a mass-murderer worthy of the title and media attention.

    Despite the tail-backs, queues and resentments caused by the new system of employing hospital doctors, the vast majority of major UK health facilities rely on the service supplied by doctors who are not of European origin.

    It may be a little unwise to become too xenophobic here...

    http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/agw-/sellers17.jpg
    unless you are a member of the British National Party, in which case, wear your tattoos and Nazi jewellery with pride when entering the emergency departments.... and good luck… but be careful if you are offered a lift home in a 4 x 4 and the driver pops out to buy a bus ticket. You may be in the wrong passenger seat. A firm grip on your Swastika is said to be reassuring in such circumstances.

Posted 2 years ago #

  • BobGreen
    Member

    I don't know about what the BNP might think but I am sure that the vast majority of foreign doctors in the NHS do a good job and are committed to the concept of helping others get well , as they should.

    What I find extraordinary and frankly naive is that doctors etc originating from countries where terrorism and radical thinking is rife were not apparently given more than the usual checks to see if they were suitable.

    Why should professional people be any less likely to murder if they were to embrace muslim fundamentalism - for whatever reason?

    There are many thousands working in the NHS who have come from Iraq / Jordan / Pakistan etc to which this scenario might conceivably apply.

    If they have not been scrutinised properly then it is very concerning - BNP or not.

    Those who are supposed to protect us seem to be pretty inept at times - if we are supposed to accept that they knew nothing about these failed attacks beforehand nor those who perpetrated them.

    But conversely they seem to have rounded up the network extraordinarily quickly.

    Frankly for educated bombers it beggars belief that they were not able to produce more than an out of control barbecue. A ten year old from a sink estate with an ASBO and a stolen mobile phone probably could have done better.

    I have a growing strong suspicion that these attacks were known about beforehand and - at least in London - were allowed to continue because someone somewhere knew they would not succeed. A calculated risk to expose all of those associated with the main players.

    I find that rather less concerning than the other scenario - 2 bombs can be left in full view in a busy part of London and no one knows anything about them or spots them.

    Either our security people are inept in the extreme at foiling such plots or they are pretty much up to speed. I hope its the latter.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  • Anonymous
    Unregistered

    The Govt perhaps making changes in the checking for staff at NHS hospitals and this won't happen again.

    I do wonder though if the apparent ineptness was just their way of refusing their masters. No one is suffering apart from one of the occupants of the car.

    What stranglehold is on these people? their loyalty would be with their vocation, if not necessarily their employer.

    All doctors take the Hippocratic oath don't they?

    Were they awarded a scholarship for their training? if so, by whom?

    Posted 2 years ago #

  • Anonymous
    Unregistered

    seemingly, now they had been corresponding by email on NHS computers, whether its true or not ???

    Posted 2 years ago #

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