Fw: Fake Doctor Nabbed

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From: dondrahj@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 10:47:37
To: <drahj@blogger.com>
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Subject: Fake Doctor Nabbed

POLICE in Lagos State have
arrested a fake medical
practitioner who claimed
to have helped in the
delivery of over 200
babies.
The owner of the hospital,
a Ghana-based newspaper
vendor, has also been
arrested in connection with
the unethical practices that
took place at the hospital,
which is situated at Unity
Estate in Iba area of the
state.
The duo were arrested
after policemen from Area
E Command, led by the
Area Commander, Damman
Okoro, swooped on the
hospital following
intelligence reports.
The Ghana-based vendor,
Gabriel Onyema; and the
fake medical doctor,
Nwankwo Stephen, were
on Friday paraded before
newsmen by the image
maker in charge of the
state police command,
Ngozi Bride.
Stephen was initially
employed at Cares Hospital
to understudy the doctor in
charge but was allowed to
take over, when the doctor
left.
Stephen, while speaking
with newsmen, admitted
to being a fake medical
doctor but claimed to have
earlier been an apprentice
at an unnamed hospital in
Ogun State.
The fake medical doctor
said, "Actually, I must be
truthful to you, I am not a
medical doctor, but I was
employed as a medical
doctor.
What really happened was
that I told them
(management) the truth
that I was a trained
auxiliary nurse, but, when
the real doctor that was
employed left the hospital,
I started acting as the real
medical doctor.
"My work speaks for me,
because I have delivered
(sic!) over 200 babies and
only one died. 199
survived. Their mothers
survived too. It was only a
baby and a mother that
died."
On how the said baby and
the mother died, the
Anambra-State born
suspect said, "It was not
my fault; it was the fault of
the doctor that was in
charge. Before I took over, I
was not happy, when he
was trying to deliver a
pregnant woman of her
baby and the delivery
lasted for about six hours."
He said further, "She was
bleeding profusely; blood
littered everywhere and I
pushed the doctor out of
the labour room and
inserted my hand into her
womb and brought out the
baby, so that the woman
would not suffer. But all
my efforts were fruitless as
the woman and the baby
died .That was the only
woman who died in my
years as the doctor in
charge of the hospital."
"Another (incident) that
happened when I was
there, which I was not
happy with, was when a
woman was transfused
with an unscreened blood.
I protested. Even though I
was not qualified to be a
doctor, I tried my best to
operate according to the
ethics of the (medical)
profession."
The owner of the hospital,
Onyema, said that he sells
newspapers in Ghana.
"I opened the hospital but
(it is) not registered. I have
started the registration
process. I employed a
genuine doctor but he left.
This man (Stephen) that is
talking like parrot started
acting. I am a qualified
spinal cord doctor, though I
did not study it in the
university.
The hospital was doing
well, and this thrash that
this man is talking, I was
not there when it
happened; I was in Ghana,"
Onyema said.
Braide said the Area
Commander in charge of
Area E "through a tip-off
started investigating the
hospital and finally
discovered that it was not
registered, and that the
doctors there were all
fake."
She said the suspects
would be arraigned in
court soon.

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