130 hospitals and pharmacies run by fake 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 fake 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 fake doctors injecting HIV-positive blood into a woman who visited his clinic for treatment of malaria.
Following a series of complaints received from residents over the proliferation of private hospitals and pharmacies in their various villages, he explained that an investigation had to be carried out to ascertain the situation.
He further lamented that the committee even found an electrical engineer operating a private hospital and attending to patients, prescribing drugs, administering drips, blood and even attending to pregnant women.
“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,” he stressed.
The chairman said one of the fake doctors said that he was a nurse but was later discovered to have only a secondary school leaving certificate.
He assured that all those found guilty would face the full wrath of the law.
