Quack Doctor In Trouble Over Patient’s Death

A quack doctor identified as Femi Olabisi
Akindele, has landed himself in trouble after
a 26-year-old woman, Bose Owoyele,
allegedly died in his hospital, Duro Doluwa
Medical Clinic and Maternity Home, located
at Ijoko-Ota road, Interpol Bus stop, Sango
Ota, Ogun State, southwest Nigeria.
According to a report published by P.M
NEWS, Akindele, 48, was arraigned at Ogun
State Magistrates’ Court 2, presided over by
Chief Magistrate S.T. Bello (Mrs) at Ota.
Reading the one count-charge to the
accused person in Yoruba language, the
prosecutor, Sergeant Ita Ita, said: “That you
Olufemi Olabisi Akindele ‘m’ on 22/7/2014 at
about 1345hrs at Duro Doluwa Clinic, along
Ijoko Road, Sango, Ota in Sango Ota
Magisterial District did unlawfully kill one
Bose Owoyele ‘f’ aged 26 by carrying out
surgical operation when you are not a
Medical Doctor and thereby committed an
offence contrary to section 316 (3) and
punishable under section 319 of the Criminal
Code Laws of Ogun State of Nigeria, 2006”.
After rejecting the accused plea in view of
the nature of the charge, Magistrate Bello
ordered that Akindele should be remanded in
prison custody pending advice from
Department of Public Prosecution, DPP.
The case was adjourned till 14 November,
2014.
However, it was gathered that the victim, a
mother of three, allegedly died with
pregnancy at the accused hospital on 22
July, 2014, after she was admitted for
jaundice treatment for four days.
Speaking to newsmen on the death of his
wife, the deceased’s husband, Olasunkanmi
Owoyele, an auto mechanic resident at 27,
Ogo-Oluwa Street, Interpol, stated that he
went to the hospital on Friday night with his
pregnant wife where she had been earlier
treated and was allegedly given injections.

Olasunkanmi explained that the late Bose
was rushed back to the hospital at about
5.30 a.m. on Saturday when her condition
became critical over night and the doctor
collected N3,000 out of the N6,000 charged
for drip and other treatment.
He added that after collecting the money, the
doctor did not allow any of her relations to
see her again until the fateful Tuesday
morning when he forced his way into the
ward where the deceased was admitted and
found her in a critical condition.
“I called the doctor’s attention to her
condition and I was told that I wouldn’t have
met her alive if not for the blood transfusion
he carried out on her the previous night and
I was asked to pay N20,000 for the
blood,” he said.
Olasunkanmi further explained: “I left the
hospital helplessly while other family
members were also denied access to her
despite her condition, only to receive a phone
call from someone later that my wife was
dead.”
It was gathered from the spokesman for the
deceased’s family, Dare Ibikunle, that a
surgery-like cut and stitches were discovered
at the lower part of deceased abdomen
before the matter was reported at Sango
Police Division.
The fake doctor was said to be arrested and
detained at the station before he was
transferred to Ogun State Police Command
Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta.
Investigation revealed that the fake doctor
claimed that the cut was as a result of his
effort to bring out the foetus inside the
victim, claiming that Bose was a Muslim who
should not be buried with pregnancy.
However, a source disclosed that similar
incident