Friday, 16 September 2011

Video: Nigerian Resident physician,brutally evicted from Missouri Hospital

The video above shows how a Nigerian resident physician, Alade Olademiji, was brutally attacked and evicted from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.

Olademiji, who had worked in the hospital for three years as part of his psychiatry residency program for the Washington University School of Medicine, was beaten and arrested by St Louis police on charges of trespassing and threatening to harm hospital staff.

But Doctor Olademiji denies the allegations saying that the hospital has been discriminating against him and have been pressurizing him to quit since September of last year to which he filed a lawsuit against the hospital.

The incident, which happened early last month, occurred when Olademiji reportedly, turned up on the hospital premises to attend a retirement party. In an affidavit sworn by a social worker, trouble started when he was restrained by hospital security who claimed that his visit was unauthorized. The affidavit further stated that Olademiji refused to leave; an effort to physically remove him from the property resulted in the scuffle you see in the video.

However Olademiji refutes the hospitals allegations saying that he had every right to be at the hospital as he was still a full-time employee with some time left in his residency.
Olademiji is also a captain in the United Sates Reserve Army.

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