He asked for a 27 beds, 18 nursing staff, a paediatrician, an anaesthetist, two odontologists, a psychologist, four radiology technicians, an ambulance and a laboratory.

A leading anaesthetist is calling for compulsory mediation between patients, or their relatives, and doctors who clash over the right form of treatment.

When he was sent into a coma by a combination of Chris Eubank Jr's fists and an anaesthetist's needle, things looked bleak.