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Disciplinary board acquits surgeon Labour MP accused of kicking nurse in operating theatre
The surgeon and Labour MP Anthony Zammit has not been found guilty of any irregular conduct in his duties, by a discipline board of the Public Service Commission.
4 September 2010, 12:00am
Matthew Vella
Matthew Vella
1 min read
Zammit was accused of having kicked an attending nurse during the course of the surgery, allegedly for being told by the nurse to cover part of the woman’s upper body he was to operate upon.
The Labour party today issued a statement claiming Zammit was the victim of “malicious attacks from the media, particularly the PN media.”
The PSC board investigated two accusations against Zammit, who has denied the accusations from the very first instance.
None of the seven witnesses brought before the discipline board, present during the alleged incident in the operating theatre, said they had seen Zammit kicking the nurse in question or kicking a bucket at her, as had been alleged.
Zammit told the PSC board that during the incident he had complained that nurses “should be taught the operating theatre procedures before being assigned to assist in operations.”
Labour said that none of the witnesses in the case described Prof. Zammit’s behaviour as arrogant or aggressive.
The PSC board was presided by Edward Borg, with Prof. Godfrey Laferla and Dr Alex Aquilina as members.
Prof. Zammit was assisted by lawyer Robert Abela.
Matthew Vella, a freelance journalist at MaltaToday, was formerly executive editor at Malt...
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Surely there is much more behind to the story then this.
To my knowledge a person/s that did not see or hear something does not mean that an event did not happen.
It sounds pretty strange to me that a person would have the guts to accuse and lie about an event knowing there were multiple persons in the same room at the time.
If one would want to lie it would be much easier to say it happened when they both were alone, no?!
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Nobody told me anything, but kicking someone and kicking a bucket in the presence of 7 other persons would surely have been noticed unless of course they were looking the other way round, were blind and deaf!
So I ask again: what is going to happen to the nurse or whoever it was that made the false allegations?
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'None of the seven witnesses brought before the discipline board, present during the alleged incident in the operating theatre, said they had seen Zammit kicking the nurse in question or kicking a bucket at her, as had been alleged.'
So according to KZD, the seven persons present could have been both blind and deaf, as they so nothing and heard nothing. Kicking a bucket at her surely would have made enough noise for someone out of the seven would have heard it.
Either the seven people or the nurse are not saying the truth under oath, as I assume that the inquire took evidence under oath.
This is Catholic Malta.
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Who told you those were found out to be false accusations?
The outcome was that there was no evidence to verify such accusations being real or false.
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Now what happens to the nurse or whoever it was that made the false accusations?
