A fake doctor suspected of being arrested for abortion

Crime & Punishment of Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Source: Graphic.com.gh

2019-07-23

The confessions of a 19-year-old girl who died shortly after allegedly using the services of a presumed fake doctor to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy led to the death penalty. arrest of the quack doctor.

The suspect, 62-year-old Adusei Opoku, was arrested by Central Accra District Police for allegedly practicing the medical profession without legal authorization and having aborted while pregnant in a house in Okaishi. in Accra.

The victim, whose name was not revealed, revealed to his father his last word before dying.

Father

Briefing the Daily Graphic, the public relations officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, Ms. Effia Tenge, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), said that the father of the victim, accompanied by a woman (the identity of the two concealed), had informed the incident of the center of Accra. District police, leading to the arrest of Opoku.

She added that the 19-year-old girl, who was ill, had been taken to the 37th Accra Military Hospital for treatment around 9 pm July 15, 2019.

She was admitted to the hospital and around 12:15. On July 17, 2019, she confessed to her father that a man she had identified as being Dr. Opoku at Okaishie in Accra had been giving her drugs to help her terminate her pregnancy.

Shortly after the confession, the victim was declared dead by the hospital while her father, stunned, was trying to make sense of his last words.

Mixed

Upon his arrest, Opoku told the police that he had learned to practice medicine after being an badistant to a gynecologist, whose name had been concealed by the police for 30 years.

Ms. Tenge stated that Opoku had stated that after the death of the gynecologist for whom he was working, he had decided to badume the role after several people knowing that he could help them get on with it. to get rid of their pregnancies that they did not want to keep asking her to call on her services. .

Opoku, who stated that he had no problems with any of his clients, admitted to having cared for the 19-year-old girl, but said that she had already taken preparations and that she was not he had only called when his situation had worsened.