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Midwife Mercy Ngozi Okeke struck off after string of blunders at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup

11:35am Tuesday 17th January 2012 in Health News By Kelly Smale

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A MIDWIFE has been struck off after being found guilty of a series of blunders including “strangling” a newborn baby with its umbilical cord.

Mercy Ngozi Okeke denied the errors which allegedly took place at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup between January 3 and February 24 2006.

A Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) misconduct hearing rejected her explanations and imposed a striking off order.

The panel heard Okeke had injected two patients in the wrong place, had not carried out vaginal exams properly and failed to use vital heart monitoring equipment appropriately.

She allegedly left a woman’s mother to plug in the monitor as she struggled to find the child's heartbeat.

In a letter to bosses, Okeke’s colleague, Helen Foreman says on one occasion, the midwife “effectively strangled” a newborn baby after placing it on its mother’s stomach without untangling the cord.

Okeke was also found guilty of blunders at Newham University Hospital and King George Hospital in Essex.

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miss sweethips says...
9:43am Fri 20 Jan 12

as a mum i find this story to be one of the worst i have read, when we give birth we expect fully professional trained caring staff to be looking after us not some uncaring amateur who looks unfit to do the job ! disgusting !

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Tongue in Cheek says...
9:56am Fri 20 Jan 12

With a million young people out of work in the Uk you would think we would start training up our people to do these jobs instead of fetching in the untrained garbage into the Nhs its a joke now!

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bible scoffer says...
10:13am Fri 20 Jan 12

...indeed 'miss s.h.' ( 87!! ) - it totally beggers belief that she choked a new born baby with the cord!! probably in a hurry to get to her meal break looking at the size of her!! our young scoffers were delivered by trained midwifes under the watchfull eye of yours truly!! ... 'a scoffer does not have one who corrects him' ( 15 : 12 )

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bible scoffer says...
10:23am Fri 20 Jan 12

...indeed 't.i.c.' ...anyone see the 'daily wail' today ?... hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came here to... 'boost our economy' are in fact - claiming - welfare payments!! ...oh dear, we are being told a pack of lies constantly by these politicians in the hope they some of the british people will fall for it!! 'british jobs for british workers anyone ?' err yes gordon brown - you did pinch that slogan from another political party - but you, blair, red ed, cameron, and clegg just don't believe in it!! thames water anyone ? see who's just lumped-on to that one after billions being ploughed and paid for by british tax-payers to upgrade the water pipes!! - jeez... yer couldn't make this up!! wake up british people pleeeeze!!

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