An electrical engineer whose name has not been made public was among the fake medical doctors operating over 100 hospital and pharmacies in Kano State.
The unnamed engineer owned an eight-bed hospital that claimed to treat different illnesses. His facility was discovered alongside 129 others during an investigation by a committee inaugurated by Ahmad Tijjani Matata, Chairman, Tudun Wada local council.
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Only one of the fake doctors holds a secondary school certificate, According to the committee. Its chairman, Abubakar Musa Karafe said the investigation followed a series of complaints received from residents over the proliferation of private hospitals and pharmacies in their various villages.
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Karafe revealed that one of the fake doctors infused HIV-positive blood in a woman who was suffering from malaria.
His words: “It is disheartening that we even found an electrical engineer operating a private hospital and attending to patients; prescribing drugs, administering drips, blood and even attending to pregnant women. One of them even added HIV-positive blood to one woman
“We even found one who is a traditional medicine vendor, but he admitted cholera patients. We had to evacuate them to the hospital for proper treatment. Most of them don’t even have basic knowledge about health.
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“One of them said he was a nurse, and later we discovered he only has a secondary school leaving certificate.”
Most of the fake doctors, according to the committee chairman, were from Kagoro, in Kaduna State, who came to Kano and posed as doctors.
Karafe, however, vowed that proper actions would be taken against them.
