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…Nab Fake Doctor In A’Ibom
The Police in Akwa Ibom State said lastTuesday that it arrested a 25-year-old fake medical doctor at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital in Uyo.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Etim Dickson, told newsmen in Uyo that the fake doctor, Usen Effiong, had been consulting in the hospital over the last two months.
Dickson said that the accused was caught, following an intelligence report from the university.
“The police arrested Usen Effiong in the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH) impersonating as a medical doctor. “The Chairman, Nigerian Medical Association, Akwa Ibom State Branch, Dr John Udobang, denied ever knowing the young man regardless of being a member of the association,” he said.
The spokesman said that the police were investigating Effiong, adding that the suspect would be made to face the full wrath of the law after investigation.
Udobang had earlier said that he received a call from the Dean of the Faculty of Clinical Sciences of the institution, Dr Sunday Udo, to come immediately to the teaching hospital.
On arrival, the dean informed him that they caught a young man who dropped out of secondary school at SS 2, parading himself and consulting in the teaching hospital as a medical doctor.
Udobang explained that he went to the teaching hospital where he interviewed the suspect and found him possessing stethoscope and sphygmomanometer (blood pressure apparatus), which he could not call well.
He said these instruments were given to him by his cousin, a medical doctor, whose name he could not mention.
“But when medical doctors were paraded for him to identify the one that gave him the instruments he could not. “On his person were found prescriptions and also forms that he wanted to fill to become a member of the Association of Resident Doctors. “He was then brought and handed over to the authority. He confessed that he is not a doctor, has not finished his school certificate and has been coming there to consult in the last two months.”
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