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Sunday World reports that a woman who was arrested for posing as a medical doctor at the Tembisa Provincial Tertiary Hospital last week may have misled the authorities about her residential address.
Nthabeleng Precious Ramashala made her first court appearance at the Tembisa Magistrate’s Court on Friday to face charges of contravention of the Health Act (impersonating a medical doctor) and for being in possession of presumed stolen property. According to the charge sheet, Ramashala identified her residential address as unit 702 at a Hillbrow block of flats. However, security guards and tenants there have never heard of her. Also, while she gave her address as a seventh-floor unit, security guards confirmed the building only goes up to six floors. The Gauteng Department of Health (DOH) said Ramashala was nabbed in a ward, while doing rounds with a stethoscope dangling around her neck. Nurses who spotted her raised the alarm. The police were called to the scene, and the preliminary investigation revealed that she was a bogus doctor. A preliminary report from the DOH revealed that Ramashala was admitted as a patient from 23 to 28 May at the very ward where she was arrested. Questions have been raised about how Ramashala evaded security to gain access and what she was planning to do in the ward. The matter was postponed to 2 July for further investigations and for police to verify Ramashala’s residential address. She was remanded in custody.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Mpho Koka & Phumla Mkize at Sunday World
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