ANPMP Ogun State Strengthens the Battle Against Quackery and Advocates Public Safety
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ANPMP Ogun State Strengthens the Battle Against Quackery and Advocates Public Safety
By Primetime Reports
The Association of Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria (ANPMP), Ogun State Chapter, once again calls the attention of the Ogun State Government and the general public to the escalating menace of quackery threatening the safety of our citizens.
The association remains firmly committed to defending the integrity of medical practice and protecting the lives of the people of Ogun State.
Over the past few months, ANPMP has followed several disturbing cases involving individuals impersonating medical doctors and carrying out dangerous, illegal medical procedures. These include:
• The convicted quack was recently sentenced to four years in prison for a failed hernia surgery that endangered a patient’s life;
• The fraudulent impersonator who
deceived patients and authorities by posing as a licensed doctor, and
• The recent shocking case of a quack who employs qualified doctors to lend false legitimacy to his unlawful operations.
These alarming incidents demonstrate how deeply quackery has infiltrated our health system and the urgent need to restore sanity.
It has come to our attention that many of these quacks are Community Health Officers (CHOs) who have been wrongly permitted by the Ogun State Ministry of Health to register and operate health facilities, despite this being contrary to the Ogun State Association of Nigerian Private Medical Practitioners (ANPMP) ethics.
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