Police has
arrested a fake medical doctor, who ran a private hospital for 10 years in
Gwarimpa area of Abuja. The investigations by Medical and Dental Council of
Nigeria (MDCN) led to the arrest of the man, who offered surgeries and
antenatal care.
Victor Moffat
Akpan was the owner of Luna Maternity & Surgery, an outfit he opened in
2006 as a “surgeon” using a forged practice licence, four years after MDCN
refused to grant him licence to practice as a homeopath.
He's
understood to have delivered by caesarean section a set of conjoined twins who
later died at National Hospital in 2013.
Dr Henry
Okwuokenye, head of inspectorate unit at MDCN, who had been investigating
Akpan, said the council did not grant him a homeopathic practice licence
because the school he claimed to have graduated from in Enugu was unapproved to
train students in alternative medicine.
Akpan told
police during questioning on Friday that in 2002 he paid N15,000 to one Mike
Nwagbara, then an administrative official with the University of Nigeria
Teaching Hospital in Enugu state, to get a forged MDCN practice certificate.
The
certificate, exclusively seen by Daily Trust, used a folio number, unique to
every doctor, registered to a Dr Tuoyo Awani, a 1995 medicine and surgery
graduate of University of Benin.
Some
documents also thought forged show Daniel to have interned at a Calvary
International Hospital in Enugu in 1996, done his National Youth Service Corps
with Prisons in 1997, attended an update course by the West African College of
Surgeons in 2001 and a postgraduate course on the “scientific basis of
obstetrics and gynaecology in 2002.”
But his
1990 Senior School Certificate from Eastern Nsit Secondary School, Odot, showed
he had no pass in any of his six subjects, scored all 7s and 8s apart from an
A3 in Geography.
Investigations
show Akpan presented the forged documents to unsuspecting officials of Private
Health Establishment and Monitoring Committee (PHEMC), which regulates private
health outfits in Abuja, to get Luna registered.
His big
patient load goes back to 2007, and his clinic expanded to hire five staff,
working in a converted apartment where he performed caesarean sections, removed
fibroids and delivered babies from women.
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