Fake doctor Nabbed After 10 Years Of Practice

Victor Akpan

After 10 years of practice, a fake doctor has been apprehended by the
police.
The suspected quack doctor identified as Victor Akpan, was arrested in the
Gwarinpa area of Abuja recently, after successfully running a private hospital
for about 10 years.
Akpan who was reportedly running the hospital with forged and stolen
certificates, had performed high-risk medical practices on women, including
Delivering pregnant women of their babies both naturally and
through caesarean sections, and also removin fibroids.
Akpan was arrested following investigations by the Medical and Dental
Council of Nigeria (MDCN).
Akpan who owns and operates the Luna Maternity and Surgery Hospital in
Abuja, was said to have opened it using forged papers in 2006, four years
after the MDCN had repeatedly refused to give him license to practice
Speaking on the development, the head of the inspectorate division of MDCN,
Dr Henry Okwuokenye, said the reason why he Akpan was not granted a
homeopathy licence was because “the school he claimed to have graduated
from in Enugu State was not approved to train students in alternative
medicine.”
He also had this to say:
“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 performed caesarean sections, removed fibroids and
delivered pregnant women of babies.”
In a bid to get Luna registered, Akpan had reportedly presented the forged
documents to officials of the Private Health Establishment and Monitoring
Committee, a regulatory organization for private health outfits in Abuja.
Akpan told investigators how he had paid N15,000 to a man who worked
with the teaching hospital in Enugu state, to get a forged MDCN practice
certificate, way back in 2002.
The certificate was issued to one Dr.Awani, a 1995 Medicine and Surgery
graduate of the University of Benin. Another forged document indicated that
Akpan did his internship at the Calvary International Hospital, Enugu, in 1996
and did his NYSC with the Nigerian Prisons Service in 1997.
Akpan also claimed to have obtained a certificate of postgraduate course on
scientific basis of obstetrics and gynaecology, in 2002, a year after he had
attended a course organised by the West African College of Surgeons, in
2001.
Akpan is set to be paraded before the end of this week.