Sikh patient was left in urine and his beard tied with gloves..?
A media report claims that nurses in the UK engaged in shocking acts of "institutional racism" by tying a Sikh patient's beard with plastic gloves, leaving him in his own urine, and serving him food he was unable to eat due to his religious beliefs. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the UK's nursing regulator, leaked a dossier to The Independent newspaper last week that details numerous allegations of racism against nursing staff and patients but allowed the nurses to continue working despite the man complaining about the discrimination in a note on his deathbed.
The revelations in the newspaper have been the subject of a council investigation. The regulator, according to a senior NMC whistleblower, has allegedly been ignoring "institutional racism" within its ranks for 15 years. The report said this has allowed NMC staff "to go unchecked" when "applying guidance inconsistently based on their own discriminatory views."
It read, "Nurses accused of leaving a Sikh patient in his own urine, tying his beard with plastic gloves, and giving him food he couldn't eat because of religious restrictions were allowed to continue working despite the man's complaint about discrimination in a note on his deathbed.
The report contained no additional information about the man or the hospital.
The whistleblower, who first brought up allegations of "alarming" racism within the organisation in 2008, has urged NMC to address an alleged racial bias in how it handles conduct cases involving Black and ethnic minority nurses and patients.
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