{"id":663340,"date":"2019-07-24T09:16:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T09:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p>The confession of a 19-year-old girl who died shortly after she allegedly patronised the services of a suspected fake doctor to get rid of unwanted pregnancy has led to the arrest of the quack medical practitioner.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, Mr Adus"},"modified":"2019-07-24T09:16:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T09:16:58","slug":"suspected-fake-doctor-arrested-for-abortion-gone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/24\/suspected-fake-doctor-arrested-for-abortion-gone-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected fake doctor arrested for abortion gone wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The confession of a 19-year-old girl who died shortly after she allegedly patronised the services of a suspected fake doctor to get rid of unwanted pregnancy has led to the arrest of the quack medical practitioner.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, name withheld, gave her father the hint in her last words on her sickbed before she died.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Father<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s father, accompanied by a woman (identities of both withheld), reported the incident to the Accra Central District Police, leading to Opoku\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Concoction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 to be kept calling on him for his services.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The confession of a 19-year-old girl who died shortly after she allegedly patronised the services of a suspected fake doctor to get rid of unwanted pregnancy has led to the arrest of the quack medical practitioner. 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