A 56-year-old father and his daughter 30 years, have both been arrested at Assin Adadientem by the Central Regional Police command for medical quackery.
Giving details of the arrest to the media, Deputy Public Relations Officer for the Central Regional police Command Sgt Evans Ettie said “a team from the Complaints and Investigative Unit of the Ghana Medical and Dental Council – Accra, with a team of police personnel from the Assin Adadientem Police command acted upon information that led to the arrest of the 56-year-old suspect Samuel Odartei and his daughter.”
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According to Sgt Ettie police intelligence revealed that the suspect “had over the years been practicing the profession from his residence at Assin Adadientem No. 2, at a designated structure, serving people in the town and surrounding villages.”
The team upon arrival “chanced on his daughter, a 30-year-old suspect Alberta Lanuekor in a pair of gloves busily dressing a patient’s wound, whilst other patients waited to be attended to” Sgt Ettie said.
The team took video coverage including shots of the scenes and the suspects were subsequently arrested and escorted to the police station with variety of operating items including prescriptive and over the counter medicines. Both suspects are in police custody assisting with investigation. Case under investigation.
Source: ATLFMNEWS
