A cleaner who posed as a doctor and allegedly caused a
woman to lose her pregnancy through the prescription of wrong medication has
been arrested by the Odorkor police in Accra.
The suspect, Daniel Yartey, 37, popularly known as Dr
Nartey by his neighbours at Achimota in Accra, is said to have been practising
illegally for the past seven years.
Briefing the Daily Graphic in Accra Thursday, the Odorkor
Divisional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Mr Francis
Aboagye Nyarko, said Nartey was arrested after a woman reported to the police
that a fake doctor had given her an injection which had led to the loss of her
pregnancy.
He said the police hunted for the said fake doctor for
nearly a month after receiving the complaint.
The woman, he said, told the police that Nartey had
introduced himself to the family of her boyfriend as a doctor at the Korle Bu
Teaching Hospital in October 2015.He said Nartey had also claimed he lived in the doctors’
flat at the hospital but investigations revealed he lived at James Town, near
Achimota.
‘Suspect introduced himself as a doctor’
On November 20, 2015, Mr Nyarko said the victim, who was
two months pregnant, felt feverish and her boyfriend called Nartey on phone for
assistance.
Nartey is said to have rushed immediately to the victim’s
house where he injected the woman and gave her some medicines to swallow.
However, reports said the woman started bleeding shortly
after taking the medication and Nartey, who had then left was contacted again.
He said when Nartey arrived later he told the family that
the earlier injection was for aborting pregnancies and so he would have to
conduct a dilatation and curettage (D and C) on the woman to flush out the
remaining foetus in the womb.
"The woman was very peeved and she reported the
incident to the police but Nartey went into hiding and the police had been
hunting for him until he was spotted at Odorkor and arrested."
Upon his arrest, Mr Nyarko said, Nartey confessed that he
was not a medical officer but claimed he was a medical student at the
University of Ghana, Legon.
Later, he said, Nartey claimed he had been a cleaner at
the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital for six years and had learnt to practise
medicine through his association with medical practitioners and had since been
attending to sick people for a fee.
Mr Nyarko said Nartey has been charged with practising
medicine without a licence.
By:Emelia Ennin Abbey
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