According to Daily Trust, Victor Moffat Akpan ran a private hospital,
Luna Maternity & Surgery, for 10 years in Gwarimpa, Abuja, and
offered surgeries and antenatal care, using forged certificates.
He
opened the hospital in 2006 as a “surgeon” using a forged practice
licence, 4 years after MDCN refused to grant him licence to practice as a
homeopath.
He’s understood to have delivered by caesarean section a set of
conjoined twins who later died at National Hospital in 2013. MDCN did
not grant him a homeopathic practice licence because the school he
claimed to have graduated from in Enugu was unapproved to train students
in alternative medicine.
During questioning, Akpan told police that in 2002 he paid N15,000 to
one Mike Nwagbara, then an administrative official with the University
of Nigeria Teaching Hospital in Enugu state, to get a forged MDCN
practice certificate.
The certificate used a folio number—unique to every doctor—registered
to a Dr Tuoyo Awani, a 1995 medicine and surgery graduate of University
of Benin. His 1990 Senior School Certificate from Eastern Nsit
Secondary School, Odot, showed he had no pass in any of his six
subjects, scored all 7s and 8s apart from an A3 in Geography.
Investigations show Akpan presented the forged documents to
unsuspecting officials of Private Health Establishment and Monitoring
Committee (PHEMC), which regulates private health outfits in Abuja, to
get Luna registered.
His big patient load goes back to 2007, and his clinic expanded to
hire five staff, working in a converted apartment where he performed
caesarean sections, removed fibroids and delivered babies from women.
Some documents also thought forged, show him to have interned at a
Calvary International Hospital, Enugu in 1996, done his NYSC with
Prisons in 1997, attended an update course by the West African College
of Surgeons in 2001 and a postgraduate course on the “scientific basis
of obstetrics and gynaecology in 2002…. n has a PhD in view….
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