For practising medicine without authority, a 60-year-old food supplement supplier , Samuel Tetteh Langmar, has been jailed six months.
The Odumase-Krobo Court presided over by Mr Asmah Asiedu, fined him Gh�720.00 and in addition he was to compensate the victim, Esther Koryo with Gh�3,000 which he could not pay, hence the jail term.
In passing judgement, the presiding judge took into consideration the age of the convict and his ignorance of the law.
The prosecutor, Chief Inspector John Akuetteh, told the court that the complainant, Esther Koryo, is a trader resident at Manyakpongunor, a suburb of Odumase Krobo and Langmar, a resident at a suburb of Odumase-Krobo.
He said on December 29, 2013 at about 8:00a.m., the complainant visited her sister, Bernice, at Aklomuase and met her and one Rejoice, wife of Langmar both of whom resided in the same house, fighting. As the complainant tried to separate the two, Rejoice bit her thumb.
The prosecution said when the convict got home and was informed of the complainant�s plight, he asked one Ebenezer Sackey, a witness in the case to assist him to send the complainant to hospital.
They first went to a private clinic at Agomanya but it was closed.
Langmar then told the complainant that he was a medical doctor and succeeded in injecting her without her consent and also gave her tablets.
Later on , the prosecution said, when the complainant got home, she felt weak so she called Langmar and informed him about her condition. It was then that he pleaded with her not to inform the police that he had given her an injection .
At the same time, Rejoice had also gone to the police to report an assault case against the complainant and her sister.
On January 9, 2014, the complainant also made an official complaint to the police and Langmar was subsequently arrested.
During interrogation, Langmar told the police that after he was informed about the incident, he took the complainant to a private clinic but it was closed. He also took her to a drug store at Agomanya for attention but the attendant was not available.
He said after all the efforts he made proved futile, and knowing the harm a human bite could cause one�s health, he decided to take charge.
He said he had a syringe, ATS, insulin, plaster, cotton wool and methylated spirit in his bag since he was diabetic and used some of his medicine on the complainant with the hope that it would work for her.
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