Doctor ‘who sexually harassed two nurses’ faces being struck off
A DOCTOR told a nurse to ‘lift up her skirt’ in a series of ‘sexually inappropriate’ comments to staff at two Scottish hospitals, a tribunal has heard.
Dr Richard Mbamali is accused of making ‘inappropriate’ comments and behaviour towards nurses at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI) and Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary in 2018.
He faces the same claims dating from when he worked at Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire, in 2019. He was dismissed from both Scottish hospitals, but failed to disclose the details to Broadmoor.
Dr Mbamali’s case is being heard at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS), which has the power to strike doctors it finds guilty off the medical register.
Dr Mbamali, who graduated in medicine in 2015 from the Charles University, Prague, was working in Scotland in 2018.
The MPTS hearing in Manchester yesterday heard that in April 2018, at the geriatric unit at ARI, he made comments about a student nurse, including telling a patient: ‘Isn’t she beautiful?’
Barrister Chloe Fairley, representing the General Medical Council (GMC), said Dr Mbamali went on to comment on the student nurse’s ‘tanned, lean physique’.
The student nurse, known as Nurse A, had ‘never felt so uncomfortable’.
Three months later, while working at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary’s combined assessment unit, it is claimed he called Nurse B ‘beautiful’ and started talking about a forthcoming summer ceilidh. The hearing heard claims he said: ‘If he lifted up his kilt she would lift up her skirt to show him.’
Nurse B said she felt ‘annoyed, uncomfortable and concerned by his full-on behaviour’, the hearing heard.
Dr Mbamali was dismissed from both locum posts and the GMC opened an investigation.
It is alleged that his actions were ‘sexually motivated’, according to papers published by the MPTS and that he ‘acted dishonestly’ in not disclosing the details to Broadmoor Hospital.
However, Dr Mbamali, who was not at yesterday’s hearing, says his locum agency advised him not to do so.