Hospital worker on Covid ward used dead patient’s bank card to buy food and drink from vending machine.
A healthcare assistant working on a Covid ward has been convicted of using a dead patient’s bank card to buy crisps, sweets and fizzy drinks from a hospital vending machine.
West Midlands Police say Ayesha Basharat, 23, took the 83-year-old woman’s card after she passed away at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham on 24 January.
A doctor had recorded the patient's time of death at 1.56pm – but just 17 minutes later Basharat used the card to make six £1 purchases using the vending machine’s contactless touch pad.
She used it again that evening, then tried again twice later that month, but by that time the card had been cancelled.
When she was arrested during her shift, she still had the victim’s card.
Basharat, from Farm Road, Birmingham initially claimed she found the card on the floor and got it “muddled up” with her own card, but they were different colours and the court heard how she ignored hospital protocol around patient lost property.
She admitted theft and fraud by false representation and at Birmingham Crown Court on 9 June she was given two five-month jail terms to run concurrently, both suspended for 18 months.
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Horrible person @Happygirl hopefully employers will be aware of her, since picture has been circulating.
She should have been put in jail!
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UPDATE............NHS worker 'refuses to apologise' for using dead Covid patient's card
An NHS worker who was spared jail after using a dead Covid patient's bank card to buy crisps, sweets and fizzy drinks from a hospital vending machine has refused to apologise.
Healthcare assistant Ayesha Basharat, 23, used the 83-year-old woman's card just 17 minutes after she died at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital on January 24.
She used the contactless touch pad on a vending machine in the hospital to make six £1 purchases.
She admitted theft and fraud by false representation at Birmingham Crown Court on Wednesday (June 9) and was handed down two five-month jail terms to run concurrently, both suspended for 18 months.
According to reports, Basharat refused to apologise to the pensioner's family when confronted at her home in Sparkhill.
She reportedly said: 'I don't want to talk about it. I have nothing to say,' while stood on the doorstep with her father and elder brother by her side.
She did not answer when she was asked why she has used the bank card, and declined to answer when asked if she was upset at the prospect of losing her job.
An internal inquiry has also been launched.
'Ayesha Basharat was immediately suspended when this incident came to light and all steps were taken to support the patient's family,' a spokesman for the trust said.
'The trust has fully supported the police with their investigation and a result of Ms Basharat's conviction, the trust will now proceed with our internal HR processes, with due consideration given to the criminal conviction that Ms Basharat has received.
'We would like to offer our sympathies to the patient's family and sincerely apologise for their experience; this incident is disgraceful and clearly fell short of the high standards of integrity that we all expect of NHS employees.'
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That's disgraceful! How could she possibly do that. Sack her, jail her whatever, hope she pays back the family.
And how many other things have gone missing too ?
Sack her, Jail her, as simple as that and make sure that she NEVER works with vulnerable or ill people again