‘You cannot do care work with an uncaring heart’- Reactions as Four UK Health Workers Were Jailed for Assaulting 89-year-old Patient
The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC on Thursday reported on how a hidden camera caught four healthcare workers assaulting an elderly woman diagnosed with vascular dementia and could not speak.
According to the report, the healthcare workers identified as Ame Tunkara, Morountaro Adefila,
Danny Ohen and Bridget Aideyan were all found guilty of the same crime hitting the aged woman with a pillow, and treating her with a lack of dignity; the Police said.
Reacting to the incident, some netizens decried the inhuman actions of the workers and also justified the jail term punishment meted out to them, while others knocked people tagging the jailed workers as Nigerians.
One only_johnson said, ‘You cannot do care work with an uncaring heart’.
Adukujao also said, “Please tell our Nigerian nurses this plain truth”
Adewaleojurongbe added, “Most nurses in Nigeria are nothing short of angels of death!”
ti_wheels said, “Help me aak ooo. Those names doesn’t sound Nigerian except the last one.
4353vivian said, “Always hating your fellow country man, who told you they are Nigerians… Read the names very well …
Ame Tunkara and Morountaro Adefila, found guilty of ill-treatment and wilful neglect were sentenced on December 8 to four months in prison, while, Danny Ohen and Bridget Aideyan were also sentenced to six months and four months, respectively, on November 14.
In February 2020, the woman’s family had secretly installed a camera and recorded footage over four days after noticing bruising on her arm.
The elderly woman, however, died in October with a police official saying “she should not have spent any of her remaining years suffering such ill-treatment.”
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