A man alleged to have failed the Ghana Medical and Dental Council (GMDC) examination on three occasions has been arrested for practising as a doctor without a licence.
The suspect, Mr Richard Acquah, was arrested at the Royal Star Clinic at Kotobabi in Accra while he was busy attending to patients.
Tip-off
Briefing the media in Accra on Thursday, January 25, 2018, the Registrar of the GMDC, Dr Eli Kwasi Atikpui, said Acquah was arrested upon a tip-off by some persons who doubted his professionalism.
He indicated that the council received the complaint in December, 2017 after which background investigations were conducted, leading to the arrest of Acquah on January 24, 2018 with the assistance of the Kotobabi Police.
He explained that the council, after it had received the complaint, went through its data base to find out if it had a registered medical practitioner by the name Richard Acquah.
During the search, Dr Atikpui said, it was established that Acquah was a Ghanaian who had his medical training at the M. Gorky Donestk National Medical University and the Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University in Ukraine and completed in June 2015.
It was also revealed that Acquah registered as a physician assistant with the council in 2011 but failed to renew his licence annually as required.
Examinations
In 2015, Acquah is said to have registered for the October 2015 examination for foreign-trained doctors but he failed the examination.
Later, Acquah took two more examinations conducted by the council in October 2016 and November 2017 but failed to pass both exams.
Foreign-trained medical practitioners who fail such exams are given letters of introduction by the council to enable them to undertake an attachment for a period of six months.
After the attachment, the council permits such persons to retake the exam but Acquah failed to take the introductory letter to an accredited hospital for an attachment for that period.
On Monday, January 22, 2018, a team from the investigations unit of the council were dispatched to locate the Royal Star Clinic and it was found that Acquah, who had failed the council’s examination for foreign-trained doctors on three occasions, was practising at the facility.
A police complaint was filed and Acquah was subsequently arrested for practising medicine without the required licence and registration with the council.
Source: Graphic.com
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WANING::!!!Every refugee receives passport given by United Nations. Never on this earth refugee receive the passport of that country except Ghana. Do our parlimantarians know law regarding refugees? Even refugee have to stay a while at least 5 years before he/she can apply for that country's nationality. If accepted then he/she can apply for travel documents such as passport. Therefore the whole thing concern these Guantanamo 2 is wrong and fault. They have to apply their refugee status from Ministry of Interior and if granted, 5 years later ask for citizenship. It will be totally wrong if the government fail to follow this refugee or international law. Ghanaians are watching oo. We live in Europe and this is what we go through or the process we follow.How can Ghana be so loose and cheap because of few money. Look what happened to our fellow brothers in Libya and Arab countries like Quatar etc.
Does this makes him a fake dr? Ask Dr Atikplui if he wrote any exams when he too came from the then soviet union . this is hypocritical on their part and to add insult to it call him 'fake'. he's a qualified Dr in ukraine but unregistered in Ghana