A UK-born Indian-origin consultant paediatrician at a hospital in northern England is among those who raised concerns and helped convict a nurse found guilty of killing seven babies by a UK court on Friday.
Dr Ravi Jayaram, from the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, 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, reported PTI.
Letby, 33, was found guilty of the murder of seven newborn babies and also found guilty of seven counts of attempted murder relating to six other babies by a jury at Manchester Crown Court, the report said.
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She will be sentenced at the same court on Monday, it mentioned.
"I do genuinely believe that there are four or five babies who could be going to school now who aren't," Dr Jayaram was in the report as having said.
He as per the report said 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, it added.
Eventually, it was in April 2017 that the National Health Service (NHS) trust allowed doctors to meet with a police officer, it mentioned.
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"The police, after listening to us for less than 10 minutes, realised that this is something that they had to be involved with. I could have punched the air," said Dr Jayaram was quoted as having said.
Shortly afterwards, an investigation was launched that would lead to Letby's arrest, it said.
