Abuja Doctor In Trouble For Allegedly Abusing Fertility Patients

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One Dr. Kalu Nwachukwu, a 47-year-old gynaecologist in Abuja who is allegedly notorious for drugging and having intercourse with his female fertility patients is reportedly now in police custody. He was arrested on August 4 following a report of ‘unethical conduct’.

According to Daily Trust, the police said Nwachukwu ‘confessed to have had sexual affairs with some of his female patients,’ adding that the patients were those who came ‘for treatment or consultation in his office and other locations.’

An anonymous source revealed Nwachukwu’s trouble started among families he helped conceive at his Life Point Medical Centre in Utako. Suspicions arose after a child conceived and born to one of Nwachukwu’s female patients went through a test that showed the child was not fathered by the patient’s husband.

Nwachukwu’s colleagues have however questioned his detention and the allegations levelled against him. A fellow gynaecologist reportedly said:

“This is all just to taint his image and the medical professional.

I’m not saying he’s guilty, I’m also not saying he is innocent. That is what the court is for. But what the police is saying to impossibility. What drugs did he use? How much drugs did he give them? Did they test any of the women to know what drug they were given, even if did happen?

To do that, even if you could, you would have had to force a patient to take the drug. How would you do that in a consulting room in a hospital, busy with staff and patients all over the place. Then you wait for her to go to sleep before abusing her. And then she would wake up, reorganize herself and then drive home. By day or by night? The timeline is impossible.”

Nwachukwu has been remanded at the Kuje Prison pending further trial.

Meanwhile, the police have warned the public to ensure they ‘carry out thorough background check on the credibility’ of doctors they engage as personal or family physician.