The complainant is Whatmore Tarugarira (43), the loss
control officer at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare.
Douglas Garikayi Mutoredzanwa appeared before Harare
magistrate Mr Dennis Mangosi, who remanded him in custody to April 29.
The court noted that Mutoredzanwa has an outstanding
warrant of arrest for another 2019 case.
He pleaded with the court to release him as he wanted to
visit his wife at a hospital, who has a newly-born baby and is sick.
Mutoredzanwa had misrepresented to the court that he has no
previous convictions and that the other case he had was completed.
When asked if he was a medical doctor, he told the
magistrate that he was a nurse.
The State alleged that on April 23, Mutoredzanwa went to
Parirenyatwa Hospital’s consultation room 2.
He misrepresented to Wilson Takudzwa Kurangwa, a medical
doctor who was on duty attending to a patient, that he was also a medical
doctor and was attending to a patient.
Mutoredzanwa grabbed an X-ray film from Kurangwa and
pretended to be analysing it, raising some comments whilst it was upside down.
He then left the X-ray film and took two surgical blades,
pethidine drugs, three syringes, some cotton, two cannula sensitive tapes and a
pair of gloves and went out with them.
Kurangwa then became suspicious with the way Mutoredzanwa
was holding the X-ray and alerted Tarugarira, the complainant in the matter.
Tarugarira then teamed up with some security guards and
arrested the suspected fake doctor, after he failed to give a satisfactory
explanation of his purpose of visit to the hospital.
The court heard that Mutoredzanwa was searched and the two
surgical blades, pethidine drugs, three syringes, some cotton, two cannula
sensitive tapes and a pair of gloves, were recovered from him.
The hospital team handed him over to the police. Herald
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