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A lab coat, a stethoscope and a hospital he had never worked at: the Kasoa "doctor" arrested on his way to meet another victim, and the Medical and Dental Council's count of unlicensed practitioners
On 6 June 2025 Ghana Police arrested a man at Kasoa in the Central Region who was, at that moment, wearing a white coat and a stethoscope on his way to meet a woman he had contacted online.
According to the Ghana News Agency, GhanaWeb and 3News, the suspect, Fredrick Papa Kow-Assifuah, admitted during questioning to impersonating a doctor at a hospital at Mallam in Accra. Police said he had used the identity to start relationships with women online and persuade them to pay for non-existent travel arrangements to Europe. A search of his home recovered two stethoscopes, three intravenous drips and five syringes, and he was arrested in an intelligence-led operation before the planned meeting.
Three months later, Citi News reported the Medical and Dental Council warning that fake doctors and forged certificates were a threat to healthcare, and giving its own count: between 2024 and the third quarter of 2025, four people had been arrested for unlicensed practice, with others under investigation and prosecutions pending; it named four facing charges.
The Kasoa case is small and almost comic, and it is on this site for the mechanism. The man was not caught by a hospital or a council, because he had not registered anywhere; he was caught because a victim or an informant went to the police. The council's register would have shown in seconds that he was not on it. Nobody he deceived had looked.
Ghana's council maintains a public register and has published lists of unaccredited health-training schools; both appear in other cases on this site. For students and patients the rule is the same: the register, not the coat. And for anyone approached online by a "doctor" with an offer, money for travel, a job, a placement, a seat, the title is the bait, and the regulator's search box is the test.
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