Caroline is a woman in her late 50s from the Caribbean. She went to see Dr Omar Weheliye with a burn on her left upper thigh. She had spilled boiling hot water on her leg accidentally. She was in agony. He refused to look at it and said he knows how to treat burns. He didn’t need to look at it. He told her to put ice on it, which so clearly shows he does not know how to treat burns, and the last thing you should do is put ice on a burn. Women in prison have to rely on everything from an aspirin to access to chemotherapy, off of prison healthcare and the GP they can’t just pop out and buy what they need. He sent her away in excruciating pain, saying that he would prescribe ibuprofen cream to alleviate her pain. He did not do this for three days. His reasons for not looking at the wound were because he had many patients waiting for him. Bronfield has approximately 10% of the patients on one GPS list in a busy surgery, there are seven revolving GPS for 540 women. That is nothing like the caseload a GP in the community would have. He doesn’t have too many patients by any account. He just doesn’t care. Another doctor had to come and see Caroline after she fed the nurse on the house clock. Finally, he prescribed ibuprofen cream. Dr Omar had never prescribed it. Caroline was in bed for two days in agony. This is not parity of treatment in the community. It is not decent or humane treatment.


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