The fake medical doctor arrested at the Kintampo District Hospital, is an ex-convict. Two persons, one of them a Catholic nun, have sworn to attest to the fact that ‘Dr’ Paul Akyeampong, 31, was a convict in a Navrongo prison.

Akyeampong was arrested on Monday while he was taking a patient to the theatre at the hospital. Police Inspector Emmanuel Quarshie, investigator in the case, told newsmen at Kintampo that the police were conducting “serious investigations,” into the allegations.

Nurses at the hospital suspected Akyeampong to be fake after 11 days duty at the hospital. They informed the police leading to his arrest. The suspect was said to have told the hospital authorities that he was transferred from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.

On his curriculum vitae, he mentioned Professor Wereko-Brobby, Dean of the School of Medical Sciences (SMS) and Prof Awuah Baah, of KNUST, as some of his referees. Since he arrived on February 14 to be begin work, the suspect could not prescribe any drug apart from touching the patients and wishing them well. He only touched the patients and told them, “You will be well.”

The suspect, a native of Akyem Achiase, claimed in his CV to have attended SMS from 1992 to 2001 and did his housemanship at KATH and the Saint Dominic Hospital at Akwatia. He was said to have collected various sums of money from some of the hospital staff. He has left behind a debt of about ?400,000 being cost of drinks he bought on credit.

Meanwhile, Akyeampong was arraigned before a community tribunal in Kintampo on Wednesday, charged with pretending to be a public officer. The tribunal, chaired by Nana M.K. Aboagye, remanded him in police custody until March 13. - The Ghanaian Times.