Trade Secretary Liam Fox rushed to the rescue of a baby having a seizure on a flight this week
The Cabinet minister - who worked as a family doctor for ten years - immediately came forward to help
INTERNATIONAL Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox rushed to the rescue of a baby having a seizure during a flight earlier this week.
Flight attendants sent out an emergency message on board his flight to the Philippines asking if there were any doctors on board after a couple from Hong Kong panicked when their nine month-old baby started having a fit.
The Cabinet minister - who worked as a family doctor for ten years before entering politics - immediately came forward.
Dr Fox diagnosed the baby with febrile convulsion - a type of seizure that happens to one in 50 children before they are five years old.
The NHS warns it is particularly frightening for first-time parents.
Fellow passengers told The Sun: “Dr Fox placed the baby in the recovery position and then bathed him to reduce his high temperature.”
The baby made a full recovery before landing - allowing Dr Fox went back to his day job of striking up new trading partnerships for post-Brexit Britain.
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But he faced criticism from human rights campaigners after saying Britain “shared values” with controversial Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte, who last year compared his war on drug addicts to Hitler’s war on Jews.
Duterte said he would be “happy to slaughter” three million drug addicts in his country and urged his countrymen to do the same.
Amnesty International chief Allan Hogarth said: “Filipinos are suffering grievously at the hands of President Duterte’s corrupt police force and his government’s deadly anti-drug policy.
“Liam Fox should be asking tough questions about the human rights crisis that Duterte has inflicted on his own people, not prioritising profit over human lives.”
