Cocaine addicted hospital porter ‘dressed up as a dinosaur’ and disrupted drug round

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A cocaine addict who dressed up as a dinosaur while working as a porter at a hospital has lost his unfair dismissal action.

Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) Adjudication Officer, Catherine Byrne found the dismissal was reasonable, proportionate and not unfair.
The porter first came to the negative notice of his hospital bosses after a clinical nurse manager reported that on April 11, 2019, he was distracting staff from getting on with their work, had dressed up as a dinosaur and had disrupted the evening drug administration round.

Ms Byrne said the facts as outlined by the hospital concerning the incident had not been contradicted.

A representative for the un-named hospital told the WRC hearing the porter, on the date, was unable to perform his duties due to being under the influence of alcohol, unprescribed drugs or the misuse of prescribed medicine.

The porter was referred to a rehab programme after the hospital’s Occupational Health Consultant (OHC) confirmed he tested positive for cocaine and benzodiazepine and had an addiction to cocaine and alcohol.

Four days after the ‘dinosaur’ incident, on April 15 2019, at the first consultation, the OHC concluded the porter was suffering from depression and anxiety.

However, the porter disagreed with the OHC’s recommendation that he attend a rehab programme.

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