Dr Julius Awakame, a NHS psychiatrist in the UK has been 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 ‘special forces’, Daily Mail reports.

The 50-year-old psychiatrist who recorded medical notes diagnosing the woman as having a history of ‘satanic ritual abuse’ said her issues could not be addressed by regular treatment.

Instead he told her to watch the channel, adding that neither psychiatry not psychology would be able to help her because there are special forces at play.

The woman identified as Patient A alleged that Awakame also told her to get ‘nice holy water’ before ‘switching off’ during the consultation at a health centre in Harwich, Essex.

Martin Rowe, a community psychiatric nurse later quizzed Awkame whether the pateint was possessed, the he replied saying “She may well be”. He claimed she had been thrown out of her local church due to her condition.

Awakame’s employment with the North Essex Partnership Foundation Trust was terminated the following month.

The psychiatrist who has returned to Ghana faced being struck off after he was found guilty in his absence at a medical tribunal of a number of misconduct charges.

The consultation took place on January 23 2014 when Awakame was treating the woman as an outpatient.

During the hearing, in Manchester, it was reported that the woman had ‘Dissociative Identity’ – a personality disorder.

But Awakame, formerly of Ipswich, then told the patient she had been ‘initiated through satanic ritual’ and wrote down a website address for her to access.

He told her the TV station was ‘specifically targeted for people who experienced similar situations.’

The patient speaking of her emotional state following the meeting, said: ‘I had pretty much switched off after hearing Dr Awakame tell me that no psychiatrist or psychologist could help me as throughout my childhood my parents had told me that no one would believe me and no one would help me’.

Rowe reported Awakame to a consultant psychiatrist at the day after the consultation.

Following an investigation he was subsequently sacked and referred to the General Medical Council.

Awakame who worked in various hospitals in the NHS from 1997 to 2014, will be disciplined by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service next month.

He is currently working as a lecturer in health informatics in his home country where he graduated in medicine in 1993

Source: Naij