A 45-year-old man, Victor Alorwu Attikpo, who claimed to be a medical officer at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and has been treating unsuspecting patients has been remanded in prison custody. Presenting the facts of the case to the Odumase-Krobo Circuit Court, Chief Inspector George Agudah of the Akosombo Police said Attikpo, in May this year, allegedly visited a prayer camp at Okanta, near Suhum, and introduced himself to the congregation as a medical officer/ophthalmologist from the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. The prosecutor said Attikpo also confided in the leader of the prayer camp that he was to replace Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng as the Chief Executive of Korle Bu but that some people in authority at the hospital were against it and so he needed to fortify himself spiritually to be able to get the position. The prosecutor said those at the prayer camp, mostly women, consulted him and he collected various sums of money, ranging from GH¢150 to GH¢200 from each person. He administered injections on some of them and prescribed medicines for others. The prosecutor said the complainant's husband, who is an usher at the prayer camp, also engaged the accused as his family doctor and invited him to attend to his wife and children at Akosombo. The accused visited the complainant's house and was introduced to his wife, Ms Mary Akufo, an accounts officer with the Akosombo branch of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), and her children. The prosecutor said Attikpo attended to the family and administered some injections and drugs. He later prescribed some drugs for one of the children on a prescription form bearing the name Dr. V.K. Attikpo/Ophthalmologist and a Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital stamp. The prosecutor said the accused also gave most of his victims complimentary cards which read "Office of the Directory i/c Welfare and Training, Dr Victor Alorwu Attikpo/Ophthalmologist, Ministry of Health, Accra". During one of his visits, Ms Akufo introduced Attikpo to one of her colleagues. Attikpo attended to her too on about six occasions and administered injections and some drugs. According to the prosecutor, the woman later reacted badly to the treatment and had to attend the VRA Hospital at Akosombo, after waiting in vain for Attikpo to complain to him. She was told at the hospital that her situation was as a result of the treatment she had received from Attikpo. She, therefore, informed the complainant, who went to Korle Bu to trace Attikpo but was told that there was no medical officer by that name. The prosecutor said on September 17, 2008, the complainant received a phone call from the accused that he would visit her the following day to treat the family and she alerted the police. Attikpo was arrested on arrival at the complainant’s house with small bottles of drugs for injection, surgical gloves and syringes and sent to the Akosombo Police Station. The prosecutor said police investigations at Korle Bu revealed that Attikpo was a quack. Source: The Mirror