The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria and the Health Facility
Monitoring Agent, HEFAMA, Lagos State, has arrested a 28-year-old
Ghanaian, Michael Akorful, for parading himself as a medical
practitioner when he is not.
The suspect has been practising as a medical practitioner in a
private hospital in Festac Town, Lagos until nemesis caught up with him
last Wednesday after he gave wrong prescription to a patient.
According to Akorful, “I was in school in Ukraine but could not
graduate and I ran away from the school because I was to be arrested for
being a witness to a crime.
“One day, I went out to a joint with my friends where a fight broke
out and somebody died in the process. The Police arrested the guy and
was looking for me, so I ran away.”
On how he started practising, he said: “A friend of mine by name
Obinna Uche, gave me the licence with which he was working to keep for
him after he ventured into another business and when I ran away from school, I came down to Nigeria and began to practise with it.”
After interrogation, Michael admitted that he stole the licence from Dr. Abiwu Hilarious.
Dr. Henry Okwuokenye, HOD, Inspectorate Department of MDCN, who led
the team said the licence was not given to Michael by anybody, adding
that he lived with Dr. Hillarious for two months from where he stole his
licence.
“From our investigation, it was revealed that he stole the document
from Dr. Abiwu Hilarious Asiwome Kosi who resides in Ghana. When Michael
came to us, he presented himself as the owner of the document and
registered for our assessment examination that is done by all trained
foreign medical doctors.
“He failed the examination twice and on the third seating, he passed
and we gave him a provisional license. In the process of verifying his
document, we discovered that his licenses were stolen from another
doctor in Ghana and we contacted the Medical and Dental Council Ghana
who gave us the relevant document and the real photograph of the doctor,
who also wrote to us.
“Since then, we have been looking for him until report came to us that he mismanaged a patient, that was how we got his address.
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