HOW DID BOGUS BARA DOCTOR GET AWAY WITH IT?

Answers are needed as to how a woman managed to pose as a doctor for three months at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital before being exposed.

It appears that she walked around with a stethoscope around her neck and a name tag that read "Dr FB Khanyi". She fooled both security guards and medical staff until an alert senior doctor picked up on her deception on Monday this week.

After she was arrested she claimed that she was working for a man from the Daily Sun newspaper who would pay her R500 for "inside stories" on the hospital. I suspect that she may be mentally ill as this is a highly unlikely story that has been denied by Daily Sun publisher Deon Du Plessis.

Hopefully the truth will come out when she appears shortly at the Protea Magistrates Court on charges of impersonating a doctor. It is very worrying that she may have treated patients or perhaps stolen things.

Hospital management needs to investigate how she got away with being a bogus doctor for so long, and tighten up security so that this can never occur again.

Statement issued by Jack Bloom MPL DA Gauteng Health Spokesman, January 26 2011

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