MOLTENO NEWS - A joint operation involving Komani Crime Intelligence, DPCI, K9, VIS and the South African Health Products Authority, resulted in the arrest of a 40-year-old woman and her male assistant (33) - believed to be her boyfriend - in Molteno for fraud, theft and the contravention of the Medicines Act 101 of 1965.
The investigation, conducted with the help of officials from the Eastern Cape Health Department, brought to light that the woman was practicing without a licence, and was not registered with the Health Professional Council of South Africa.
According to Estern Cape Police spokesperson Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana, the woman has been practising as a doctor in Molteno for two years before the investigation was launched in September last year. She dispensed medication to patients as well as sick notes, without any medical qualifications.
She was arrested on Thursday 21 January after officials posing as patients visited her practice for medical consultations.
The woman was caught red-handed when she gave them medication as well as sick notes. The practice numbers on the sick notes did not correspond and the medication in the surgery featured state stamps from different health centres in the Eastern Cape.
Police seized documents and medication and needles with an estimated value of more than R700 000.
The suspects appeared in the Queenstown Magistrate's Court on 22 January where the case was postponed to Thursday 28 January.
The alleged bogus doctor and her assistant shortly after their arrest.
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