A Ghanaian psychiatrist, Dr Awakame Julius of National Health
Service, NHS in the North Essex Partnership Foundation Trust, United Kingdom,
has been reportedly sacked after he advised a patient to get help from TB
Joshua’s 24-hour church TV channel, Emmanuel TV because she might be possessed
by demonic forces, UK Daily Mail reports.
Dr Julius, according to
reports, recorded medical notes diagnosing the woman as having a history of
‘satanic ritual abuse’ and said her issues could not be addressed by regular treatment.
He, thereafter, told his
unidentified patient to watch Emmanuel TV, adding that ‘neither psychiatry not
psychology would be able to help because there were special forces at play.’
The patient claimed Julius
also told her to get ‘holy water’ before ‘switching off’ during the
consultation at the health centre where he was treating the ‘vulnerable’ woman
as an outpatient.
When community psychiatric
nurse Martin Rowe later quizzed Julius whether his patient was possessed, he
said, “She may well be” and claimed she had been thrown out of her local church
due to her condition.
The doctor, reports
allege, faced being struck off after he was found guilty in his absence at a
medical tribunal of a number of misconduct charges.
The hearing in Manchester,
was told he was made aware she had a ‘Dissociative Identity’: a personality
disorder, and a ‘history of previous satanic ritual abuse’ before making a
record of it in his notes.
But Awakame, formerly of
Ipswich, then told his patient she had been ‘initiated through satanic ritual’
and wrote down a website address for her to access, reportedly claiming that
her problems ‘could only be addressed by the church’ before he wrote down the
name and suggested she wrote a book about her experiences.
The TV station, the doctor
added, was “specifically targeted for people who experience similar
situations.”
(Source: DAILY POST)