According to Tribune, 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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