Posted by 130 hospitals and pharmacies run by bogus doctors have been found by a committee established by Alhaji Tijjani Matata, the Chairman of the Tudun Wada Local Government Area of Kano State.
The committee claims that during its inquiry it was found that one of the bogus physicians has a secondary school diploma and that another was an electrician who owned an eight-bed hospital and made claims to cure various illnesses there.
The committee’s chairman, Alhaji Abubakar Musa Karafe, expressed regret over one of the bogus doctors injecting HIV-positive blood into a woman who visited his clinic for treatment of malaria.
He added that an investigation had to be done to figure out the matter after receiving a number of complaints from people about the expansion of private hospitals and pharmacies in their respective areas.
He expressed regret that the committee had even discovered an electrical engineer running a private hospital, caring for patients, writing prescriptions, giving drips, giving blood, and even helping expectant mothers.
“We even discovered one who sells conventional medicines, but he took in cholera sufferers. For proper care, we had to remove them to the hospital. The majority of them lack even the most fundamental knowledge about health, he emphasized.
One of the bogus doctors, according to the chairman, claimed to be a nurse but was later found to just have a secondary school diploma.
He promised that everyone who was found guilty would experience the full force of the law.