A doctor who told a nurse to “lift up her skirt” in a string of sexually inappropriate comments to staff at two Scottish hospitals has been struck off.
Dr Richard Mbamali made the sleazy comments to nurses at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary as well as Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary.
He also carried out similar behaviour while employed at Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire.
‘Nurse never felt so uncomfortable’
Mbamali was sacked from both his Scottish roles but failed to disclose what had happened to his new bosses in England.
Mbamali, who graduated in medicine in 2015 from the Charles University, Prague, was working in Scotland in 2018.
A hearing of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) was told that he made comments about a student nurse, including telling a patient “Isn’t she beautiful?”
He also went on to comment on the student nurse’s “tanned, lean physique”.
The student nurse, known as Nurse A, said she had “never felt so uncomfortable”.
Three months later, while working at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary’s combined assessment unit, he called Nurse B “beautiful” and started talking about a forthcoming summer ceilidh.
Mbamali said: “If he lifted up his kilt she would lift up her skirt to show him.”
Nurse B said she felt “annoyed, uncomfortable and concerned by his full-on behaviour”.
He also made a number of “sexually inappropriate comments” to a colleague known as Nurse C and repeatedly kissed her which left her feeling “uncomfortable” in his presence.
‘Misconduct was a serious breach’
The MPTS has now ruled Mbamali should be struck off.
It is understood the doctor only worked for NHS Grampian briefly as a locum.
In a written ruling, the tribunal said: “Dr Mbamali’s misconduct was a serious breach of GMP and breached the fundamental tenets of the medical profession.
“Dr Mbamali had repeated his sexually motivated conduct.
“In relation to Nurse A and Nurse B, Dr Mbamali’s actions took place within a work setting.
“In relation to Nurse C, Dr Mbamali’s conduct was repeated despite his previous dismissals and ongoing GMC investigation.
“The tribunal noted that Dr Mbamali’s sexually motivated conduct involved inappropriate verbal comments and then escalated to Dr Mbamali exerting physical force.
“It also noted that in light of Dr Mbamali’s misconduct, he abused his position and the trust placed upon him as a doctor.”
They added: “In all of the circumstances, the tribunal determined that Dr Mbamali’s misconduct was fundamentally incompatible with continued registration and that no lesser sanction than erasure would adequately promote and maintain public confidence in the medical profession, and promote and maintain proper professional standards and conduct for members of that profession.”
A spokesman for NHS Grampian said: “NHS Grampian does not tolerate sexual misconduct and any reports of this nature are taken very seriously.”
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