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By Ann O’Loughlin
A doctor who put an old laptop in a box and returned it to a shop with a receipt for a new one and got €599 has been found guilty of professional misconduct by a Medical Council inquiry.
A sanction will be decided later for Dr Alabi Emmanuel Gbadebo, originally from Nigeria but living in Cork. He yesterday pleaded for one last chance and said at the time he was under financial pressure and had been out of work for years.The fitness to practise committee found Dr Alabi guilty of professional misconduct for inducing a representative of the Argos store, Blackpool, Cork in Aug 2008 to repay €599 to him for the return of the computer which was not the one which had been purchased. Allegations of making a false declaration to the HSE in Aug 2010 when he was under Garda investigation and failing to notify the HSE he had been convicted of a criminal offence were also found to be proven against the doctor.
The committee said it was satisfied Dr Alabi’s conduct was such that doctors of experience, competence, and good repute would consider it disgraceful.
Last year the 50-year-old was found guilty of poor professional performance at a Medical Council inquiry in relation to work at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda in Jul 2010.
Yesterday the hearing heard he got a four-month suspended sentence by Cork District Court in Sept 2010 after he was convicted of inducing the Argos store manager to pay €599 for the return of a computer and with the intention of making a gain for himself.
Garda Michelle Quinn told the inquiry the Argos manager had told her a €599 laptop returned on Aug 29, 2008, was not the correct one but an old computer in the new box.
Garda Quinn said when she viewed CCTV footage she identified Dr Alabi.
Letterkenny Hospital human resources manager Patrick Murray told the hearing that in Aug 2010 the hospital offered Dr Alabi a one-month contract. While waiting for the Garda vetting certificate, the hospital asked him to sign a statutory declaration which stated he had not been convicted or was not the subject of a pending prosecution. His contract was later extended, but Mr Murray said at the end of September he was contacted by local gardaí who sought to verify Dr Alabi was working at the hospital. When confronted, Dr Alabi admitted the conviction and apologised.
Mr Murray said he considered it was a breach of trust and in the best interests of the hospital and patients he made the decision to dismiss the doctor.
Dr Alabi said that when he signed the declaration he was just happy to be back at work.
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