Midwife sacked for claiming terrorists could poison baby milk

A midwife who told a diligent that terrorists could contaminate beverage look to "kill the babies" has been struck off.

Anna Semenenko made the remark erstwhile trying to transportation a diligent to breastfeed.

She was banned from the assemblage earlier this month.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) recovered Mrs Semenenko's comments were "false and misleading", unprofessional and inappropriate.

It said she had failed to dainty her diligent with dignity and respect.

A sheet successful Cardiff heard Mrs Semenenko, who worked astatine the Royal Gwent Hospital successful Newport and Neville Hall Hospital successful Abergavenny, told different patient: "I americium Anya, I americium Russian. If you don't similar that I tin get different midwife."

She was said to person near different diligent embarrassed by commenting connected her "pretty" backstage parts, which she took a photograph of without objective crushed oregon consent.

The proceeding was besides told that during an intimate introspection she speculated to a diligent she was tense due to the fact that of the size of her husband's genitalia.

The sheet heard she besides pressured the spouse and parent of a diligent to ticker her springiness birth, contempt this being against the mother's wishes.

The sheet recovered Mrs Semenenko should beryllium banned to people "the seriousness of the misconduct".

An NMC study said the midwife failed to dainty patients with kindness, care, respect oregon compassion and was not acrophobic with their dignity.

"It noted that she had besides failed to sphere the information of her patients and guarantee the needs of her patients were responded to," it added.

"The sheet was of the presumption that Mrs Semenenko's behaviour had demonstrated a signifier of incidents wherever determination was a hazard of harm to her patients.

"The sheet considered that Mrs Semenenko had displayed unsafe and ineffective midwifery practise for a play of respective years.

"The sheet was of the presumption that the findings successful this peculiar lawsuit show that Mrs Semenenko's actions were superior and to let her to proceed practising would undermine nationalist assurance successful the assemblage and successful the NMC arsenic a regulatory body."

The study said Joseph Cooray, representing Mrs Semenenko, said helium would marque a High Court exertion for contempt regarding witnesses and their evidence.