Dr Raj Mattu was a senior cardiologist in the Coventry
and Warwickshire NHS Trust until he was forcibly discharged in 2010. He has
just won his lawsuit for unfair dismissal. His trouble started in 2001 when he reported
to the media about the squalid and unsafe conditions cardiac surgical patients
were forced to live in at Coventry 's
Walsgrave Hospital .
He then believes he was subjected to a witch hunt, a covert campaign to
discredit him in any way possible, a "plausible alternative" to their
real motive, which was his whistle-blowing. They trumped up some charges
against him that he considers very heinous like fraud, sexual harassment, assault,
finding flaws in his work etc. If you're a regular HPANWO reader you'll no
doubt have found this story as familiar as I have, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/how-i-became-ex-hospital-porter.html.
I hope Dr Mattu bleeds the bastards for every penny he can get! He should show
them no more mercy than they showed him.
This tale really rings a bell with me, the conspiratorial targeting
of the individual, the lies tabled in order to blacken their name, to put them
under emotional pressure and steamroller them out of their job. It amazes me
how difficult it is to get a quorum together at a union branch meeting to
discuss positive subjects about improving everybody's lives, yet when it comes
to maliciously humiliating and intimidating a colleague, NHS staff in huge
numbers will tacitly form a dedicated and loyal united front at the drop of a
hat. Dr Mattu says his managers instructed the head of hospital security to spy
on him; and the head of security agreed!? Why is that? Maybe it's media indoctrination
and cultural programming; would Phil Mitchell hesitate to get Dr Mattu sacked? That's
a big subject that will require another article. This whole process took over a
decade, far longer than it did with me in which I was manoeuvred out of the
door within three months. These days, when every hospital and doctors' surgery in
the country is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, this must have cost the
Trust an extraordinary amount of money; far more than they spent getting rid of
me. Not to mention the loss of an experienced doctor of consultant level,
somebody who costs several million pounds when all his experience, training and
education is added up. Yet they paid out the cash without a second thought. There's
an important lesson to be learnt here; don't ever think that corruption and
secrecy is impossible in the National Health Service because somebody will
always speak out. We are looking at a level of internal violence and a climate
of fear that even I underestimated.
Source; please also listen
to the brief radio clip in the right hand column: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-27072779.
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