My attention was drawn to a headline in the Telegraph the other day that read ‘New guidelines to be introduced after German locum gave patient overdose’. Strange, I thought, German doctors haven’t been noted for killing people since 1945 and they are now among the most reliable in the world. I also found it strange that the case would be enough to trigger new guidelines, so I read on.

The ‘doctor’, one Daniel Ubani, was convicted of negligence after giving pensioner David Gray a massive overdose of diamorphene during his first shift in Britain while working for a primary healthcare trust in Cambridgeshire. Another of his patients died during the same shift and is currently being investigated by police. It emerges that this doctor had limited knowledge of English, had little training and no experience as a GP. He also skipped back to Germany to avoid the manslaughter charges being brought against him in Britain, receiving a nine-month suspended sentence for negligence in Germany, where he continues to practice.

I also noticed the doctor’s surname, Ubani, did not sound remotely German, despite the article trying to lead me to believe he was. There was also a strange lack of photos of this Daniel Ubani in the several articles published about the case. So I did a bit of research and found that Ubani is, in fact, a Nigerian name. I subsequently found a photo of him in an article in the Mail, which shows a very sub-Saharan African man.

What will have happened, of course, is that if he has any at all, he will have obtained his very dubious qualifications from some disreputable ‘organization’ in Nigeria for a sum of money. The fact that the level of his English is in doubt shows that he has not received his qualifications from a more reputable Nigerian institution, as they use English for all purposes of business, government and science in a country that has several different languages. It is the lingua franca of Nigeria. His qualifications gained later in Germany qualified him only as a cosmetic surgeon.

Furthermore, it was another ‘doctor’ of Nigerian extraction, Dr Edward Iyizoba, who gave a reference for Ubani to get the job in Britain. The verity of the information contained in the reference is now in question.

The moral of the story should have been a simple one: if you bring in third world people with third world qualifications, you get a third world service. But the newspapers have avoided it at all cost because the cultural Marxism that they subscribe to dictates that they must distort reality to fit the dogma. This does not merely show disrespect for poor David Gray and his family, but such an irresponsible distortion of the facts also puts all those who use the British healthcare system in mortal danger.