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Rights group decries rise of fake doctors in Kaduna
From Saxone Akhaine, Kaduna
A CALL was at the weekend made on the Police and other security agencies to check the growing activities of fake medical practitioners in Kaduna State.
Making the call in Kaduna, the Human Rights Community in the North said that the activities of such quacks have led to avoidable deaths.
Speaking on behalf of the rights group, President of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), Mallam Shehu Sani, said at a press conference that the group had already briefed security agencies in the state of danger posed by a private hospital operating in Barkin Ruwa, a suburb of Kaduna, where an unqualified medical doctor is allegedly performing surgical operations on patients.
In the statement read by Sani and titled, "Unethical Medical Practice and Danger to People's Lives in Kaduna", it was noted that while few credible private hospitals have been positively offering appropriate medical care to those who can afford it, "indiscriminate establishment and operation of fake private clinics, chemists and patient medicine stores have become the order of the day."
He added: "The civil rights congress is currently spearheading a crusade against a pharmaceutical technician running a private hospital in Kaduna", pointing out that the pharmacist has for over five years been conducting surgical operations on innocent and helpless citizens of the state resulting in many untimely deaths.
To avoid jeopardising investigation by the police and security operatives on the activities of the said private hospital in Barkin Ruwa, Sani stressed that CRC would immediately hand-over to security agencies the details of "this man and his clinic for detailed investigation and prosecution."
The human rights group had in recent times received complaints from member of the public, particularly families of victims of fake medical practitioners.
The human rights group urged the state and federal governments to pay more attention to the "health of our helpless people by equipping out public hospitals and put an end to the culture of public office holders wasting public funds to travel abroad for medical services."
He further decried the attitude of many medicine dealers, pharmaceutical stores and chemists driven by commercial interest and engaging in injecting patients and prescribing drugs with no regard to the consequences of such to the health of their customer-victims.
His words: "We have found out that it has become a norm for medical practitioners working in public hospitals to establish private clinics and blackmail patients to patronise them.
"This development, even through permitted by law and medical regulatory agency concerned, has most often undermined the essence, objective and usefulness of public hospitals and exposes patients to danger."
Meanwhile, the State Security Service (SSS) in Kaduna confirmed that the man operating at the Barkin Ruwa private hospital in question was being interrogated.
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