Report: UK Nurses Left A Sikh Patient In Urine With His Beard Tied With Gloves
A Sikh patient was shockingly subjected to “institutional racism” in the UK when nurses tied his beard with plastic gloves, left him in his own urine, and gave him food he was unable to eat. According to a document released to The Independent from the UK’s nursing regulator, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the nurses were permitted to continue working despite the man complained about the prejudice in a note on his deathbed. Multiple allegations of racism towards nursing personnel and patients were detailed in the report.
After a senior NMC whistleblower alleged that the regulator had neglected to confront “institutional racism” in its ranks for 15 years, the council opened an investigation into the newspaper’s claims.
“Nurses accused of tying a Sikh patient’s beard with plastic gloves, leaving him in his own urine, and offering him food he couldn’t eat for religious reasons were allowed to carry on working despite the man complaining about discrimination in a note on his deathbed,” according to the newspaper.
“The screening team at the NMC first closed the case involving the Sikh patient. A source claims that the NMC staff members in charge of choosing whether to launch an investigation did not adequately take into account responses to the patient’s note, which was found by his family after his passing. The note, which was written in Punjabi, stated that nurses had teased him, only given him food that they knew he couldn’t eat, and ignored his call bell, which led him to wet himself and step in his own urine.
