In Kano State’s Tudunwada Local Government Area, more than a hundred dubious hospitals and pharmacies have been closed down, including a hospital with a phony surgeon performing childbirth.
Following reports of frequent maternal deaths and patients developing malformations as a result of using the medical services, the owners of the facility were shut down and arrested.
Concerned about the situation, the local government formed a health committee under the direction of a prominent member of the community, Abubakar Usman Kareba, who looked into it and discovered numerous phony medical clinics that were operating illegally nearby.
Following the closure of the fraudulent medical facilities, Kareba informed reporters that the owners had been taken into custody.
He said the local government would not relent in taking drastic legal actions against all those arrested, among who is a traditional medicine attendant but delivers women of babies and performs surgical operations.
The quack doctor, James Bawa who is from Kaduna State, accepted that he was guilty of all the charges levelled against him but asked the committee to forgive with a promise to relocate back to his state.
Another quack doctor, Mallam Shehu, a traditional medicine attender, admitted that for a long time he was performing surgical operations in the area and that he was also injecting patients and receiving women in labour.
The Committee Chairman, Abubakar Usman Kareba assured that they would not relent in taking legal action against all those that were arrested to serve as a deterrent to others.