A man posing as a doctor at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital was reported to the authorities after hospital staff raised suspicions.
The hospital personnel interrogated the middle-aged guy, who was later identified as Williams Cyril Kohen, as part of their routine rounds, and their suspicions were verified.
After the suspect was turned over, the hospital’s police station forwarded the case to the Central Police Command for additional investigation.
Meanwhile, the hospital’s public relations officer, Kwame Frimpong has said that the facility has put security measures in place to prevent incidents like these.
“At KATH, it is very difficult for people to come and claim that they are doctors and start working there because that is not how the thing works. We have a team-based system where all the team members are known and also remember that it is a training institution so most of the time the people who join us are our former students and so it is a very close-knit community and the team members are known to each other. So you cannot just be part of the team out of the blue. And because patients are allocated to teams you cannot go to any patient when you are not part of the team.”
“Again, we have this electronic medical records system where every member of the medical staff has a password specific to them, and you have to use this system to attend to patients, to review the cases, and to give prescriptions for medicine to be dispensed. Once you don’t have the password because you are not a staff or member of the medical teams you cannot even attend to the patient,” he stated.
