‘Arrogant’ doctor left baby brain damaged then fled UK

AN “ARROGANT” doctor left a baby with catastrophic brain damage then fled to Ghana to set up a clinic under the same name as his former NHS hospital.

Dr Ignatius Adams, who was described as “yelling and swearing” during the delivery, tugged the child so violently that he almost dragged the mother onto the floor.

It later emerged that the registrar obstetrician was at that time under investigation for writing fraudulent prescriptions for family members.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, where he worked, have since admitted massive failings in their care and paid substantial damages to the family, who must remain anonymous for legal reasons.

However, the family are demanding to know why Dr Adams was allowed to work at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, that evening in April 2016.

His actions caused the mother to suffer three heart attacks on the operating table because she had lost so much blood. The child is severely disabled, while his father lost his job as a manager at a top accountancy firm due to post-traumatic stress disorder and has not worked since. Caron Heyes, the family’s lawyer at FieldFisher, said: “The way [Dr Adams] dealt with the emergency in theatre indicated he either had an appalling level of arrogance or no insight to his lack of knowledge. That to me says that he was inadequately trained for the job.”

The trust insists that Dr Adams’s training was up to date, but has not

‘He either had an appalling level of arrogance or no insight to his lack of knowledge’

released documentary proof. Dr Adams left the UK for Ghana shortly after the tragedy, not taking part in a GMC hearing which found him guilty of dishonest and misleading conduct over the forged prescriptions.

But The Sunday Telegraph has established that in 2017 he registered to practice at “Broomfield Hospital” in Accra.

A spokesman for the trust said: “We have apologised unreservedly to the family for the errors that occurred in this extremely sad case.”

Dr Adams was unable to be contacted for comment.