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www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw
Owusu
Thursday, January
05, 2017
The tug-of-war that has ensued between the Registrar of the Ghana
Medical and Dental Council (MDC) and owner of Obengfo Hospital is getting
personal.
According to Dr. Dominic Obeng Andoh, the registrar is embarking on
a personal agenda against him by making malicious statements in some sections
of the media to make him look as some kind of a quack.
He said the recent visitations by the police at the Advanced
Bodysculpt Centre of the Obengfo Hospital at Weija Junction, Accra on the
instructions of the Registrar of the council Dr. Eli Kwesi Atikpui was part of
the agenda to force him out of the profession.
Patients including celebrities and other high-profile Ghanaians have
been attesting to what can be described as mouth-watering transformations due
to the unique artistic way excessive fats from the body are withdrawn without
being cut but the registrar insists that Dr. Obeng Andoh is not licenced to
conduct such a procedure.
Genesis
Giving the genesis of the issues, Dr. Obeng Andoh said “Dr. Eli
Kwesi Atikpui himself filed a complainant to the Medical and Dental Council of
which he a is part that I was advertising unfairly and in performing countless
hernia surgeries around 2010,” adding that “So he together with the MDC sat on
the case without ever inviting me to defend their concocted false charge and succeeded
in sentencing me from the medical profession for three years in 2012 for having
a sign board that had a hernia drawing on when my clinic was located in
Mataheko, Accra.”
“I was never invited as natural justice demands even to defend
myself against the bogus charge but they passed a one-sided judgment in my
absence saying that I should be suspended from practice. I saw my lawyer and we
filed an appeal at the High Court.”
Dr. Obeng Andoh said “the court then asked the MDC to file their
so-called proceedings that led to the decision to suspend me but they didn't
and haven't been able to defend their bogus judgment against me till date. The
case is still pending.”
He said since then, the registrar has been condemning him through
the media at the least opportunity saying “he calls me a quack Doctor and asked
everybody not to come to my clinic.”
Dr. Obeng Andoh further said “he asked Accra Reginal CID to come and
arrest me when an appeal against that bogus suspension had been filed at the
court which meant that they had no right to follow through with their
orchestrated suspension and should have left me alone to work.”
He said that again in 2013 “I
heard Dr. Eli Kwesi Atikpui attacking me in the media that I only have a
medical licence that allowed me to do only consultations and had teamed up with
some journalists and some doctors in publishing false, fabricated stories that
I was actually killing unnamed clients in my clinic when in actual fact no such
medical misconduct nor negligence had ever been found against me.”
He said when Dr. Stephen Opuni was at the Food and Drugs Authority
(FDA), the registrar allegedly used the authority to harass him (Dr. Obeng
Andoh) without any justification.
“He teamed up with Dr. Opuni who is believed to be his classmate to
arrest me on a false charge of advertising on a hernia surgery,” adding “after
the needless arrest and the false charge the case was never heard.”
He said as a result of the registrar’s pronouncements against him in
the media, “I had to sue Multi media, CEO KwesiTwum, Manesseh AzuriAwuni, and
Seth Frimpong Boateng and late Isaac Yeboah of P&P in the process for
publishing defamatory stories about me and Obengfo Hospital. The case is still
pending.”
He said the council has continuously rejected his application for
renewal of licence without justification since he took them on in court.
“All this time year after year I do what all other good doctors do by attending prescribed Continuous
Professional Development (CPD) accredited conferences, programs, training sessions both locally and
internationally to upgrade and improve myself and at the end of each year
present all certificates including fees
to the MDC. To my utmost dismay the council rejects and consciously
decides not to receive them.”
“From 2012 till date I have all my certificates and money available,
but they will not accept my application and turn around to make me look bad in
the eyes of the public,” he complained.
He said some elements in the council are using the police to harass
him even without any express orders of the court saying “No medical negligence
nor misconduct has ever been found against me in my medical practice in any of
the thousands of surgical procedures done by me both in Ghana or
internationally.”
“Most of my clients are highly educated and know what they want.
Celebrities, journalists, Doctors, pastors, pastors wives, Doctors wives,
lawyers, Chiefs, beauticians, politicians and the like. No death, no
Life-threatening complications has been caused through my surgical practice in
my hospital. I can boost of very successful outcome of surgery with the over 20
thousand surgical procedures in my highly esteemed hospital.”
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