{"id":171702,"date":"2015-12-03T14:20:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T14:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=171702"},"modified":"2015-12-03T14:20:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T14:20:28","slug":"fake-doctor-to-get-4-year-prison-term-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=171702","title":{"rendered":"Fake doctor to get 4-year prison term if&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 50-year-old man has been sentenced to four years in prison by an Akyem-Swedru Circuit Court for posing as a qualified medical doctor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accused\u00a0in question can however avoid the four-year prison sentence if he pays a fine of 20,000 Ghana Cedis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was revealed that the accused\u00a0had been working as a fake doctor under two names; Dr. Samuel Owusu Jnr and Emmanuel Owusu Dotse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He\u00a0was arrested at his residence, which also doubled as his clinic at Akye-Oda Roman Down, following reports made to the police on the morning of November 30.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reports to the police indicated that he had been administering medical care to unsuspecting patients under the guise of being a qualified doctor. He was attending to a patient when the police picked him up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police interrogation revealed that he\u00a0had been practicing medicine without proper qualifications for the past 5 years in places like Nkawkaw, Suhum and Assin-fosu among others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some certificates and hospital equipment were\u00a0retrieved from the scene of the arrest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Divisional Police Commander for Akyem-Oda, Chief Superintendent Emmanuel Ampofo, speaking to the media appealed to Ghanaians to seek\u00a0medical care from duly accredited health centers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 50-year-old man has been sentenced to four years in prison by an Akyem-Swedru Circuit Court for posing as a qualified medical doctor. The accused\u00a0in question can however avoid the four-year prison sentence if he pays a fine of 20,000 Ghana Cedis. It was revealed that the accused\u00a0had been working as a fake doctor under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":12780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-171702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}