The Ashanti Regional Police Command has ordered investigations into circumstances that led to the death of a self-styled medical doctor who was said to have committed suicide at the police station at Hwereso in Ejisu. It also urged the Ejisu District Police Command to take over investigations in the case, which was initially being handled at the Ejisu Police Station. The new Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Patrick Timbillah, who issued the directive, also asked the Regional Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to supervise the investigations so as to unravel the exact circumstances involving the incident. Chief Inspector Yusif Mohammed Tanko of the Regional Public Affairs Unit, who briefed the Daily Graphic in Kumasi, said that did not mean that the police command suspected foul play. He said it was only to enable the police to find out what exactly happened. Chief Inspector Tanko said there were some witnesses at the police station who had given statements to the police to help in the investigations. Asked whether the police faulted for not searching the suspect, he said the suspect had earlier been released on bail and had reported to the police station on Monday in connection with the investigation into the death of a patient he was treating. He added that the claims by the self-­styled doctor that he had been practicing for the past 13 years had also raised concerns about regulations on private health facilities and their practitioners in the country, as he confessed to the police that a total of 11 people had died at his Agyenkwa Clinic at Hwereso. It will be recalled that a.42-year-old self-styled medical doctor at Hwereso, who had been accused of the death of a patient, stunned police officers at Ejisu when he committed suicide on Monday afternoon behind the counter. Bernard Azi was said to have blown his throat with a locally manufactured pistol, which he had concealed in his cloth. Azi was to be charged with the murder of Mahama Adam, 32, who went to his clinic for medical treatment last Friday but died on Saturday morning. The police were just about to process him on charges of murder, but unknown to them, he had a locally manufactured pistol hidden in his cloth, and he used it to shoot himself in the throat. After the death of the deceased, Azi allegedly carried the corpse to deceased's family house at Ejisu. The family members, who became alarmed, questioned why the body was not taken to the mortuary or the police station instead. They reported the matter to the police at Ejisu and Azi was subsequently invited by the police. After preliminary interrogation, the police were said to have cautioned him for hindrance of inquest-concealing death - which was suspicious and released him on bail to produce his medical certificate last Monday. Source: Daily Graphic