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| Africa Live this week: 19-25 February 2024 - BBC News | Africa Live this week: 19-25 February 2024 - BBC News |
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| Kyle Zeeman | |
| BBC News, Johannesburg | |
| South Africa’s Gauteng provincial health department has warned | |
| residents not to pay healthcare workers directly after a bogus doctor’s alleged attempt | |
| to solicit, in its words, "a bribe" at the country’s biggest hospital. | |
| The woman, reportedly wore green scrubs which had the name "Dr Zulu" printed on them, is alleged to have asked a patient’s escort at Chris Hani Baragwanath | |
| Hospital to give her 700 rand ($36; £29) for assistance. | |
| The escort grew suspicious when the woman, who has not been named, said they should | |
| meet at a pedestrian gate to make the payment. | |
| When approached, she was unable to produce her credentials, | |
| and later arrested. The woman posing as a medic has not yet spoken about the incident. | |
| The Gauteng health department urged members of the public to be aware of such | |
| scams. | |
| "If there are any fees payable in the hospital, this will be | |
| done at patient administration and an invoice will be issued to indicate | |
| exactly what the patient is paying for," it said in a statement. | |
| People pretending to be registered medics have become a major concern in | |
| South Africa, with the health ministry saying last year that more than 120 people had been arrested in connection with allegedly bogus qualifications over the previous three years. | |
| Popular TikToker Matthew Lani last year claimed to be a registered medical doctor with a degree from Wits University in Johannesburg, but this was denied by the institution and the country’s Health Professions Council of | |
| South Africa. He later admitted that he was not a doctor, then charges that he had impersonated a medic were dropped. | |
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