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WHO INVESTIGATED? – Dr Ravi Jayaram spent two years pleading with hospital managers to investigate Lucy Letby.
Dr Ravi Jayaram, a UK-born Indian-origin consultant paediatrician at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northern England’s Chester, is among those who raised concerns and helped convict the nurse found guilty by a UK court on Friday.
How did the doctor help catch the nurse?
Dr Ravi Jayaram said some of those lives could have been saved if his concerns about former nurse colleague Lucy Letby had been heeded and the police alerted sooner. “I do genuinely believe that there are four or five babies who could be going to school now who aren’t,” Jayaram told ‘ITV News’ in a television interview after the verdict.
He told the channel that consultants first began raising concerns after three babies died in June 2015. As more babies collapsed and died, senior medics like him held several meetings with hospital executives to raise their concerns about Letby.
According to The Guardian, it was Jayaram who alerted the management but was told ‘not to make a fuss’ about it. Despite Jayaram’s constant warnings, the hospital authorities remained negligent about the situation and Lucy, who was in her 20s at that time continued to remain in the neonatal unit. The tipping point came only in June 2016 when an unexpected death of a child triggered the hospital administration to take some steps.
Who is Dr Ravi Jayaram’
According to Knight Ayton Management, Dr Ravi Jayaram worked as a Consultant Paediatrician at the Countess of Chester Hospital. He is also a TV personality in his own right. He co-presented Channel 4’s series “Born Naughty'” and was featured on the Channel 4 health series “How To Stay Well”. He has worked in the National Health Service for over ten years. He did his undergraduate training in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and was trained in paediatrics in the northeast of England, Bristol, New South Wales and London. Dr Jayaram’s association with the Chester Hospital is a long one. According to Knight Ayton Management, he has worked in the pediatric department of the hospital for 6 years
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