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News24 reports that a 24-year-old man posing as a medical student and working at Mamelodi Hospital was only caught out after his friend snitched on him following a fallout.
The bogus student doctor started working at the hospital on 29 September in the accident and emergency unit. A month later, the jig was up when it was revealed he did not have the necessary qualifications. According to the Gauteng Department of Health, the man was able to dupe the hospital by submitting fake documents purporting to be from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Departmental spokesperson Kwara Kekana indicated that the man was not hired but rather placed as a medical student at the hospital and worked in the emergency unit under the supervision of senior medical officers. "A close acquaintance of his alerted the hospital management after they had a fallout. She mentioned that he was using two different names and had two different IDs. The hospital called the university for verification and it had no knowledge of him," Kekana said.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Alex Mitchley at News24
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