The Lagos Police Command have ucovered an illegal hospital being operated by a Ghanaian in Mafoluku area of Lagos State.
Hayfore Adu- peprah said he came into Nigeria as a nursing tutor in 1982, and established the hospital 14 years after.
It was revealed that the consultant and operator of the illegal hospital Hayfore Adu – Peprah, could not provide the certificate he claimed to have obtained before operating the private home.
Attesting to the illegal practices of the hospital, one witness who happens to be a family member of a victim, explained that in September his relative came to the nursing home due to swollen legs, she met one of the nurses on ground as the doctor was not available.
“The nurse asked her to go for another scan which she did when she came back one of the nurses directed her to go to a general hospital when she got there she spent two days there before they transferred her to Ayinke House Ikeja.
“Two weeks later I came back here to ask the doctor what happened, he said that he knew the baby (of his relative) had died in her womb for 2 weeks but didn’t know how to tell her”.
The operator, however, denied his alleged title as a medical doctor for the nursing home.
