The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested a
25-year-old man, Usen Effiong, for posing as a medical doctor and consulting
for the University
of Uyo Teaching Hospital
for more than two months.
The State Police Command Public Relations
Officer, Mr. Etim Dickson, said Effiong, an indigene of Ukot Usung Itam, in Itu
Local Government Area was caught based on intelligence report from the UUTH.
He said, “The police arrested Effiong in the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital impersonating a
medical doctor.
“The Chairman, Nigerian Medical Association, Akwa Ibom
State branch, Dr. John
Udobang denied ever knowing the young man. He is not a member of the
association.”
He said the police had investigated Effiong and
found out that he was actually impersonating a medical doctor, adding that the
law would take its course.
Udobang told PUNCH Metro that he received a call
from the Dean of the Faculty of Clinical Sciences, UUTH, Dr. Sunday Udo on the
activities of Effiong.
He said, “Udo told me that they caught someone
who has not finished secondary school parading himself as a consultant in the
teaching hospital as a medical doctor.”
Udobang explained that he went to the teaching
hospital where he interviewed the suspect and found him with stethoscope and
sphygmomanometer (blood pressure apparatus).
He said, “We also found some prescriptions and
forms that he wanted to fill to become a member of the association of resident
doctors”
“Later, when they went to look for him, he was
found in the doctor’s consulting room eating.
“He has confessed that he is not a doctor, and
has not finished his school certificate, and has been coming there to consult
in the last two months.”
Asked how it was possible for an SS II dropout to
be consulting in a teaching hospital, Udobang replied that people used to see
him but did not know his intention.
He said, “The Dean whose table he was sitting on
used to see him and thought he was a medical student or a newly employed doctor
that he has not known.
“It was after one of the younger doctors saw him
and asked the Dean who he was that they started investigating him.”
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