Collins Agyemang Badu
The Asokwa Circuit Court 2 in Kumasi has convicted two people who posed as health workers of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) after they pleaded guilty to forging staff identity cards and practising medicine without registration.
The convicts, Evelyn Ataa Amankwah, 33, a private nurse, and Collins Agyemang Badu, 22, a student nurse, were each fined GH¢12,000 after admitting to the offences before Judge Vida Achia Yeboah.
The two were charged with conspiracy to commit crime, forgery of document, and practising medicine without registration.
ASP Stephen Ofori, police prosecutor, told the court, the complainant was a Public Health Officer at KATH.
According to him, investigations revealed that in June 2026, Evelyn Ataa Amankwah approached the operator of a printing press in Kumasi with samples of KATH staff identity cards and requested forged copies to be produced.
The forged cards identified Ataa Amankwah as a Disease Control Officer and Agyemang Badu as an Enrolled Nurse of KATH. The printing press operator reportedly produced the fake identity cards for a fee of GH¢200.
The prosecutor narrated that on June 23, 2026, at about 10:00 a.m., the two visited shops at Asokwa in Kumasi, where they introduced themselves to traders as KATH health workers using the forged identification cards.
The court heard that the pair rendered health services to members of the public and administered suspected drugs while impersonating officers of the hospital.
Their activities were detected by KATH’s Public Health Unit, which, together with the hospital’s security team, mounted an operation at Asokwa.
ASP Ofori said the two were arrested at the scene and found in possession of the forged KATH identity cards, vaccines, medications and other medical items while holding themselves out as Public Health Officers of the teaching hospital.
They were subsequently handed over to the police for investigations.
During interrogation, both accused persons admitted the offences in their caution statements.
The prosecutor stated that following investigations, the police charged them with conspiracy to commit crime, forgery of document and practising medicine without registration.
ASP Ofori told the court that the forged documents included a Disease Control Officer Staff ID No. 42024116 and an Enrolled Nurse Staff ID No. SDCF42024107, both purportedly issued by KATH but known by the accused persons to be false.
After the two pleaded guilty to the charges, the Asokwa Circuit Court 2 convicted them and imposed a fine of GH¢12,000 each. Failure to pay the fine will attract a 12-month imprisonment term with hard labour.
By Ernest Kofi Adu