The Medical and Dental Council (MDC) is warning the public not to patronize the services of Obengfo Hospital.
Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Medical and Dental Council, Dr. Eli Atikpui says anyone who goes there to seek medical advice does so at his or her own risk.
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His comment follows the untimely death of Stacy Offei Darko, a Deputy Chief Executive Officer for National Entrepreneurship Innovation Programme (NEIP).
Ms. Darko, 37 according to her mother, had gone to the hospital to treat malaria when the sad incident took place.
The distraught mother, Nana Akosua Animah, reported the matter to the police leading to the arrest of Dominic Obeng-Andoh. The medical facility has been closed down for investigations into the matter.
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But on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Tuesday, Dr. Eli Atikpui said he was shocked the facility was opened for business after the Council, together with the police, closed it down.
He noted that, between 2012 and 2013, Dr Obeng-Andoh appeared before the Council and was found guilty of medical malpractices and was suspended for three years.
However, under the law, once a practitioner files an appeal, a stay of execution goes into effect, giving Obeng-Andoh permission to continue his practice until the appeal was determined.
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This notwithstanding, Dr. Atikpui stressed that Dr. Obeng-Andoh has no valid license to operate.
“We have done our best as Medical and Dental Council to close down the hospital to no avail so why was an institution that was shut down by a regulator reopened without recourse to the provisions of the law”, Atikpui asked.