Lagos Police Arrest 2 Fake Doctors

The Police Command paraded two suspected fake medical doctors on August 16, 2013, Friday.
The suspects were seized for operating an unlicensed hospital named ‘Care Hospital’ at Omotoba Street, Unity Estate, Iba, Lagos.
The fake doctors identified as Gabriel Onyema Ihejiero, 39, and Nwankwo Stephen, age unknown, who has been employed as doctor by Ihejiero.
According to the police, on 26 July, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Damian Okoro, who is the Area ‘E’ Commander, Festac Town, received a distress call that some fake doctors were operating in Iba area and they were arrested.
Nwankwo Stephen has said the following in his confessional statement: “The MD (Ihejiero) is my friend. He came to me for an advice, then I suggested to him that we should start a hospital business and he agreed.
“I only worked for two years in his hospital before I stopped. I was trained as an auxiliary nurse in Ondo State for two years.”
The police said their investigation revealed that the two suspects never attended any medical or nursing school and they have conducted over 80 deliveries for pregnant women in the hospital.
While corroborating the Police report that they have carried out series of surgical operations, Stephen said: “I have delivered over 90 pregnant women and they were all successful.”
In his own confession, Ihejiero, who claimed to be selling bond paper in Ghana before he began the hospital business, said: “I own the hospital located at Iba. Though I am not a medical doctor, I employed a doctor with two years medical experience.”
Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ngozi Braide, while speaking at the parade, advised the public not to patronise unlicensed hospitals and quack doctors.

Source: PM News