Dr Awakame Julius , 50, Ghanaian
psychiatrist, 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.
Dr Julius Awakame,
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. Instead
he gave her the name of the television station run by a church in Lagos adding:
'neither psychiatry not psychology would be able to help because there are
special forces at play.', according to reports.
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.
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