Doctor at Osaka Immigration Bureau suspected of working while drunk

That is really too bad...if only she were able to receive help and support.

Maybe she was having a stroke or medical episode? They just jumped to this conclusion? Any testing done?

Thats a job that would drive anyone to drink doc!

In case of emergency even guard will hesitant to follow up to doctor, this is the case in March 2021. So doctor really have time to pass the time.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2023/04/a5d6e9c74832-video-of-sri-lankan-who-died-in-detention-in-japan-shown-to-public.html

Getting hammered is probably her coping mechanism, a way of dealing with the cognitive dissonance.

3RENSHOToday  04:53 pm JST

That is really too bad...if only she were able to receive help and support.

Yes but after being relieved of duty. People's lives depend on a doctor.

An immigration holding pen is one step up from a prison doctor. Getting competent staff is probably a fool's errand to begin with as any competent physician would most likely be employable at higher pay almost anywhere else.

Stressed Out, Overworked, driven to the bottle, LOL

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Maybe she was having a stroke or medical episode? They just jumped to this conclusion? Any testing done?

*"Officials said that she exhibited signs of possible intoxication on more than one occasion..."*

Additional part-time doctors will care for the inmates if they fall ill, the bureau said.

I was under the impression, based on what happened to that poor Sri Lankan woman and other accounts I've read, that the staff just ignores detainees who fall ill.

I guess when you spend all your time ignoring the detainees you might drink to kill the boredom.

An immigration holding pen is one step up from a prison doctor. Getting competent staff is probably a fool's errand to begin with as any competent physician would most likely be employable at higher pay almost anywhere else.

No excuse. She is a doctor whose duty is to preserve life, ease suffering. Unprofessional and incompetent.

"a full-time female doctor"

In news writing, the most important elements go in the lead. So I'm wondering what the doctor's gender has do to with this story. I don't recall similar stories ever saying "male doctor," or "male prison guard" etc., unless their gender was a factor in the news event, like, for example, a male teacher in a girls-only school accused of a sex crime. Anyway, the use of the pronoun "she" would have alerted readers that this seemingly reckless and untrustworthy individual is a woman. I guess JT wants to stress that point.

JT's site is filled with articles about people in the news calling for equal treatment. JT's own people haven't got the message, it seems.

Jeff

what are you like sometimes eh? I doesn’t matter is it was a bloke or a bird, what matters is that you shouldn’t be doing a job of plastered. To be honest I’m surprised this became Obuki , you know. Well, they keep so many thing secret at these places, it’s horrific what goes on there you see.

"Suspected" of working drunk isn't signed and sealed drunk. This doctor may just have awful people skills - like most doctors in Japanese hospitals - and may have trippedwhile walking. Being an akward doctor that stumbles once doesn't mean you're drunk. What should be looked at is how much "care" is actually given to immigrants in these facilities, and we know it ain't great.

If this doctor works in an immigration facility then she is employed by the Ministry of Justice. That says it all.