A Nigerian healthcare professional has lost his job in the United Kingdom after admitting to inappropriate behaviour toward a patient under his care at York Hospital.
Identified in court proceedings as Kudabo, the staff member was said to have kissed a patient in what his legal representative described as a misguided attempt at offering comfort.
His barrister, Sodipe, told the court, “He has held up his hands to say, yes he is guilty – he shouldn’t have done that. He accepts his actions were inappropriate and unacceptable.”
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The court heard that Kudabo, who had relocated from Nigeria to the UK with his family for work, was “moved to sympathy” by the patient’s suffering and wrongly assumed that physical affection would ease the situation.
In the wake of the incident, the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust — which manages the facility — issued a formal apology to the patient. “Patients should always feel safe and respected while in our care, and we deeply regret that this was not the case,” the Trust stated. “We acted swiftly and decisively, and the individual involved left our employment soon afterwards.”
Kudabo’s case adds to ongoing conversations in the UK healthcare sector around professional boundaries, ethics, and patient safety.