The confession of a 19-year-old girl who died shortly after she had
allegedly patronised the services of a suspected fake doctor to get rid
of an unwanted pregnancy has led to the arrest of the quack medical
practitioner.
The suspect, Mr Adusei Opoku, 62, was arrested by the Accra Central
District Police for allegedly practising as a medical doctor without
legal authority and aborting pregnancies from a house at Okaishie in
Accra.
The victim, name withheld, gave her father the hint in her last words on her sick bed before she died.
Father
Briefing the Daily Graphic, the Public Relations Officer of the Accra
Regional Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mrs Effia
Tenge, said the victim’s father, accompanied by a woman (identities of
both withheld), reported the incident to the Accra Central District
Police, leading to Opoku’s arrest.
She said the 19-year-old girl, who was sick, was taken to the 37
Military Hospital in Accra for treatment about 9 p.m. on July 15, 2019.
She was admitted at the hospital, and about 12:15 p.m. on July 17,
2019, she confessed to her father that a man who she identified as Dr
Opoku at Okaishie in Accra gave her some medicine to help abort her
pregnancy.
Shortly after the confession, the victim was pronounced dead by the
hospital while her dumbfounded father tried to make meaning out of her
last words.
Concoction
On his arrest, Opoku told the police that he learnt to practise
medicine after acting as an assistant to a gynaecologist, whose name has
been withheld by the police, for 30 years.
Mrs Tenge said Opoku claimed that after the gynaecologist, for whom he
worked, died, he decided to take on the role after a number of people
who knew he could help them get rid of pregnancies they did not want
kept calling on him for his services.
Opoku, who said he had not had any problem with any of his clients,
admitted attending to the 19-year-old girl, but indicated that she had
earlier taken some concoctions and only called on him after her
situation got worse.
