Fake Doctor Arrested After 10 Years Of Practice In Abuja

A fake doctor identified as Victor Akpan has been arrested by the Nigerian police in Gwarinpa area of Abuja for allegedly running a private hospital Luna Maternity and Surgery Hospital with forged and stolen certificates.

Akpan is said to have operated for 10 years and during that period performed cesarean sections, removed fibroids and delivered pregnant women of babies.His arrest was triggered by investigations by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) after they refused to grant him a license to practice as homeopath four years ago.

According to Dr Henry Okwuokenye, the Head of the Inspectorate Division of MDCN, the regulatory agency refused to grant him a homeopathic practice licence “because the school he claimed to have graduated from in Enugu State was not approved to train students in alternative medicine.” Dr. Okwuokenye said:

“Akpan had big name patients as far back as 2007 and had facilitated the expansion of his clinic. He hired five workers, who assisted him in an apartment where he performedcaesarean sections, removed fibroids and delivered pregnant women of babies.”

The suspect allegedly paid N15, 000 to one Nwagbara, a worker with a teaching hospital in Enugu State, to get a forged MDCN practice certificate originally issued to one Dr. Awani, a 1995 Medicine and Surgery graduate of the University of Benin. Other documents he allegedly forged include includes those indicating his internship at Calvary International Hospital in Enugu in 1996 and had his National Youth Service Corps with the Nigerian Prisons Service in 1997.

Akpan also claimed to have attended a course organised by the West African College of Surgeons in 2001 and a postgraduate course on Scientific Basis of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 2002.

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