Crime
Quack nurse renders patient permanently disabled
A 35-year-old auxiliary nurse, Jimoh Ganiyat, has been arrested by the police for allegedly inj£cting a 22-year-old graduate, Omosebi Tomiwa, in the nerve and thereby causing permanent disability to one of his legs.
The suspect who parades herself as a registered nurse in the Arigbajo area of Ogun State was on Monday, December 19, 2022, arraigned before an Itori Magistrate Court.
She was charged before the magistrate on a 5-count charge bordering on negligence and reckless treatment of the victim as well as malicious assault on the victim and the mother. It is reported that s after committing the act, she threatened the life of the victim as well as that of his mother.
It was gathered that the accused person in the process of treating the victim for malaria and typhoid injected him in the nerve thereby causing disability to one of his legs.
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