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| STEPHEN NWANKWO |
Stephen Nwankwo, a secondary school certificate holder, but
worked as a doctor in a fake hospital has been arrested alongside the owner of
the hospital one Gabriel Onyema, another secondary school leaver, who lives in
Ghana and sells paper.
Ngozi Braide, spokesperson
for the police command said Nwankwo and Onyema were arrested by officers of
Area ‘E’ Police Command, FESTAC Town, after a pregnant woman, who had gone to
the hospital, died during labour.
Nwankwo who said he was
an auxiliary doctor in a hospital in Ondo State before he moved to Lagos, where
he was employed by Onyema.
The suspect said, “I
worked in a hospital in Ondo State sometime ago. I finished from a secondary
school before getting a job in Care Hospital, Iba.
“I met Gabriel (Onyema)
in the house where he was living in Iba and told him the house was good for a
hospital. We then teamed up and entered into a partnership with another man,
Dr. Abayomi.
“Gabriel later said I
should start working in the hospital as a doctor as well. We undertook up to 90
deliveries. There was a delivery we started about 8 am but did not end until 4
pm. The woman lost a lot of blood. When the baby did not come out on time, we used
hand to pull the baby out.
Onyema said he lives
mostly in Ghana “where I sell bond papers.”
Asked if the hospital
was registered, he said, “Work is ongoing on the registration.”
He stated, “I don’t
really know all the details of what the doctors I employed there do. They are
in the best position to tell you since I was always in Ghana.”
When journalists asked
if he was aware his employees perform illegal procedures in the hospital,
Onyema said, “Ask me a valid question.”
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