Quack Doctor With Forged OAU Certificate Arrested By Lagos Police
Men of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a fake medical doctor practicing in the Ikorodu area of the state.
Also found in the possession of the suspect was a forged certificate from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State.
According to a video by the TVC posted on Tuesday, the police said they discovered about 200 patient cards with the fake medical practitioner, Tayo Shakirudeeen, an indigene of Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Shakirudeen said he had treated malaria, typhoid, and infections and performed operations on children suffering from an appendix, after learning about it while working as a nursing assistant at The Jones Hospital, Ojokoro, along Ikorodu Road.
Asked how many years he had been treating patients with a fake certificate, he said three years, claiming that it was his first time performing a proper surgery.
He also said it was a patient he treated that came with the policemen to arrest him, as he regretted his actions.
“I performed vital signs and abdominal scans. Then, after confirmation, you do PCV (packed cell volume), and then you prepare the patient for the surgery. You clean the stomach with the antiseptic Dettol and water. So after that, you give some anesthesia injections before starting the surgery,” Shakirudden said.
He used a surgical blade “to dissect the stomach, it’s appendix after opening the stomach, then you cut the appendix after cutting the stomach, then you suction the appendix, then you suction the flesh, fat and skin, then you pack it with gauze and apply plaster.”
It was gathered that he only holds an SSCE from Majidun Grammar School, as he said, he was arrested, and “after performing the surgery, the patient was discharged home. So after like three months, the patient came with the police to arrest me.”
He said there were no complications after treating the patient, so he did not know the reason why the patient came back to the police.
“I charged one hundred fifty thousand, and I have six workers. My hospital is located in Ikorodu. It’s a new site but somewhere close to Elepe Estate. I regret every bit of my action so I would never advise anyone, or if there’s anyone that is still hiding somewhere and doing such a thing they should desist from it,” he added.
Shakirudeen’s hospital is Skyline Medical Centre, and he noted that he is a married man with three children.
Speaking about the certificate the police found with him, he said, “It’s a forged certificate from Obafemi Awolowo, MBBS, Medicine, and Surgery. Nobody taught me, but I used to help my boss when he was performing the surgery.”
“To dissect the stomach, it’s appendix after opening the stomach then you cut the appendix after cutting the stomach then you suction the appendix, then you suction the flesh fat and the skin then you pack it with gauze and apply plaster,” he added.
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