LONDON – A Syrian surgeon in Britain has been charged with making a series of racist rants against Indian doctors after he claimed that they should “clean toilets and not practise medicine”, a tribunal heard.
Ragheb Nouman, who was working as a locum at the University Hospital of Hartlepool, allegedly also told hospital colleagues that Indian doctors would be the “downfall of the NHS” and would “take us all over,” the Daily Mail reported on Wednesday.
The series of racist comments were made in July 2012, just weeks after Nouman started working in orthopedics at North Tees and Hartlepools Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service was told.
Nouman’s racist rants began when he was overheard arguing with colleagues, telling one, “I don’t understand you Indian, before a female staff member called him into her office to defuse the situation.
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But Nouman told the woman: “The only reason that I have been brought in for this discussion is because of the Indian doctors that have reported me. I am not racist; I have no problem with Arabs or Jews, only with Indians and the Indian population.”(Link Newspaper)