Fake doctor exposes self, views X-ray upside down

Yeukai Karengezeka–Court Correspondent 

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.

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. 

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.

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.