allafrica.com on May 17, 2012 reported that an Akure Chief Magistrates’ Court yesterday ordered one Joseph Fimusanmi, 30, to be remanded in prison for alleged impersonation. The magistrate, Sola Akintoye gave the order after listening to the plea of the accused person who was alleged to have paraded himself as a medical doctor. The police prosecutor, Mr Isah Atanegbe said the accused person committed the offence on May 5, at the state’s Specialists Hospital, Akure. The accused was alleged to have secured employment with the Ondo State Health Management Board as a medical doctor. According to the prosecution, Fimusanmi forged the certificate of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria to secure employment with the board. Atanegbe said the offences were contrary to and punishable under Section 467 of the Criminal Code Cap 37 Vol. I Laws of Ondo State 2006.

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pmnewsnigeria.com on May 17, 2012 reported that a Benin-based medical doctor, Dr. Sunday Ogodo has been sentenced to a five-year jail term by a Chief Magistrates

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looklocal.co.za on May 15, 2012 reported that justice Kathy Satchwell of the Johannesburg High Court found several acts of negligence by Edenvale Hospital that led to Prudence Khumbula’s daughter, Tanya, being brain damaged and paralysed during birth. The Gauteng Premier, Nomvula Mokonyane, has been ordered by the court to pay R12-million in a medical negligence case. “Last year the Gauteng Department of Health lost all 10 medical negligence cases in court, and had to pay out R19,9-million,” said Democratic Alliance Health spokesperson for Gauteng, MPL Jack Bloom. “So far this year R15,5-million has already been paid in two cases.

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iol.co.za on May 15, 2012 reported that a Durban anaesthetist, who was charged with unprofessional conduct for failing to monitor a patient who subsequently died, has been fined R50 000 and immediately suspended from practice for an effective three months. Leon Rheeder pleaded guilty before a conduct committee of the Health Professions Council of SA on Monday. The committee suspended him from practice for one year, with three months of it effective immediately. The remaining nine months was wholly suspended for a period of five years, provided Rheeder was not found guilty of a similar offence in that time. Rheeder was expected to appeal against the sentence. He had been monitoring 70-year-old patient Ian Fordyce during a cataract extraction operation at Crompton Hospital in Pretoria in February 2010. But he left the theatre to relieve himself and Fordyce had an adverse reaction to the drug Ultiva and slipped into a coma.

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vanguardngr.com on May 15, 2012 reported that the Optometrist and Dispensary Registration Board of Nigeria has shut down a fake eye clinic located at Shop 35, University of Lagos Main shopping complex, Lagos. Investigations reveal that the operator had on its sign board the inscription “Dudu Ventures”. Luck ran out of the owner, Mr. Dudu Yemi Oladipupo, a school certificate holder, when an enforcement unit of the Board stormed his shop following a tip off. By the entrance of the shop, members of the public were given the impression that the shop was for shoes, clothes and hair accessories amongst others. But in reality, the owner who has no formal training on eye related issues was actually carrying out eye tests and treating other eye diseases.

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newsday.co.zw on May 11, 2012 reported that a recently-graduated medical doctor, Lovemore Dzvimbu, will rue the day he laid his hands on his innocent seven-year-old niece after he was jailed for 20 years for raping her in January this year. In addition, the court added another 10 months to his sentence which had previously been suspended on yet another related offence last year. Dzvimbu (28) was found guilty of the offence when he appeared before Harare regional magistrate Estere Chivasa yesterday.

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thenationonlineng.net on May 09, 2012 reported that a Warri magistrate court has remanded a Veterinary Doctor, Isaac Ademola Longe, in prison custody till May 23, 2012 over an alleged N13m fraud. The accused person was arraigned on a two-count charge. Presiding Magistrate E.A. Odjugo maintained that the accused person should be in prison custody to enable him reach out to his counsel and family. The magistrate also ordered the state commissioner of police to accommodate the request for telephone and any other means of communication he may need in order to rally his defense together.

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saharareporters.com on May 07, 2012 reported that a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja presided over by Justice Adamu Bello remanded Sani Teidi Shuaibu in Kuje prison over a Four Hundred and thirty nine million (N439 million) pension fraud. He was arraigned over charges of fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud and concealing the illicit origin of stolen pension funds by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Four others arraigned together with him were business concerns with which Shuaibu laundered the money. They are: Badawulu Ventures Limited, Ebunu Attah Investment, Muha Millennium Motors Limited and Riba-ile Petroleum Limited.

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allafrica.com on May 07, 2012 reported that the conviction of a prominent member of Equatorial Guinea's beleaguered political opposition is a travesty of justice, Human Rights Watch said today. A trial court in the city of Bata found Wenceslao Mansogo Alo, a medical doctor, guilty of professional negligence and sentenced him to three years in prison in a politically motivated trial. Mansogo, a leading member of the political opposition and prominent human rights defender, has been detained since February 9, 2012, following the death of a patient during surgery. The court also granted the prosecution's request for an order to close Mansogo's private health clinic and ordered him to pay five million CFA (approximately US $10,000) to the patient's family and a fine of 1.5 million CFA (approximately $3,000) to the government of Equatorial Guinea, according to one of his lawyers who was at the court when the verdict was read.

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thenewage.co.za on May 07, 2012 reported that the provincial health department is closely watching developments around Dr Peter Motlhaoleng, a medical practitioner at Brits Hospital, following allegations that he raped a teenager at the facility last week. Motlhaoleng, 31, was arrested after an identity parade. He allegedly forced himself on a 17-year-old girl who had been admitted to hospital following a suicide attempt. Brig Thulani Ngubane said: "This came after the victim was ill and admitted at Brits Hospital on May 1. "The victim was waiting for her mother after being discharged when the doctor called her inside one of the rooms and ordered her to sit on the bed where he allegedly undressed and forced himself on her." Motlhaoleng appeared in the Brits Magistrate's Court and was released on R1000 bail. The case was postponed to June 5 for further investigation.

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vanguardngr.com on May 07, 2012 reported that two medical personnel attached to the Federal Government’s Irrua Specialist Hospital, Irrua, Edo State, have been arraigned before an Ekpoma Magistrate Court for allegedly raping a 25- year-old woman, after allegedly injecting her with a substance. The accused persons, Dr. Ndukwe Kalu, a Pharmacist and Eriyo Omoregie, a medical doctor, were accused of raping and assaulting the woman, at Ebhokhuala Quarters of Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State.

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leadership.ng on May 03, 2012 reported that an Ebute Meta Magistrates' Court in Lagos on Thursday remanded Femi Bejide, who allegedly killed one Blessing Friday, by administering fake drugs on her. Bejide, 35, who was docked on a charge of murder, was said to have claimed to be a medical doctor. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the defendant’s plea was not taken as the court has no jurisdiction to try the case. Magistrate M.O. Olajuwon, ordered him remanded in Ikoyi Prison pending advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP). The prosecutor, ASP Emmanuel Essien, told the court that the accused, who claimed to be a doctor, on Feb. 12, killed Friday as a result of the drug he gave her to use.

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iol.co.za on May 01, 2012 reported that for the last few months of her life, Cecilia Jansen van Vuuren could not walk, feed herself or often even recognise her family. She was paralysed from the waist down and high on morphine. Now, her widower, Leon, has decided to sue Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital for medical negligence. Cecilia, 45, a hypertensive diabetic, had an infected foot amputated in 2010. In September last year, she had to undergo surgical debridement to remove infected tissue from her other leg. By December 22, Cecilia was dead. Her death certificate states it was due to natural causes.

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iol.co.za on April 24, 2012 reported that two Durban doctors have been charged with medical-aid fraud amounting to R3.5 million for submitting false claims. Doctors Anez Awath-Behari and her ex-husband Mahendra Pramchand were arrested yesterday by officers of the commercial crime unit. They appeared in the Durban Commercial Crime Court and were granted bail of R60 000 each. They have been charged with multiple counts of fraud and of contravening the Medical Schemes Act. According to the charge sheet, Behari is a representative of the Prydon Clinic, an alcohol and drug-abuse treatment centre in Phoenix.

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iol.co.za on April 24, 2012 reported that a Durban medical doctor is expected to hear on Tuesday whether he is guilty of misconduct for failing to refer his

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zimbabwejournalists.com on April 18, 2012 reported that a doctor accused of drugging and raping a 21-year-old student at his Harare surgery has denied the charge claiming he could not have carried out the attack since she had a genital infection. Dr Alfred Mamsa, who operates a surgery at Fife Ave Medical Center, denied raping his patient

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jpost.com on April 17, 2012 reported that a hospital in Brussels on Monday fired one of its top surgeons for allegedly hurling Nazi slogans and racial slurs at a Jewish colleague.

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