adminmonths, has been arrested.
Blessing Gama (42) was arrested at Kaguvi Building yesterday following a tip off to the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare by new management at the Christian Medical Aid Society who questioned his credentials and conduct.
“We asked him to give us his curriculum vitae and he gave us a handwritten sheet of paper,” said CHMAS chief executive officer Mrs Tsitsi Changamire.
She said at one point Gama was asked about a certain medical drug and he confidently replied that it was a rat killer. “I have always suspected that he is not qualified. He even had a very bad command of English,” Mrs Changamire said.
Mrs Changamire said her organisation approached various medical councils to verify Gama’s credentials and his name was not registered anywhere. She then tipped officials from the Ministry of Health
and Child Welfare who organised a meeting with him to substantiate his claims.
‘‘We would like to express our gratitude to the Ministry of Health for their assistance in helping us confirm that Gama is not a gynaecologist and neither is he a medical doctor,” Mrs Changamire said.
“We would like to assure the public that all efforts will be made to ensure that service is not compromised through the employment of unqualified and unkind personnel.”
Gama confessed before the health officials, his employers and police that he never studied medicine and that he lied to get a job.
Ministry of Health and Child Welfare Secretary Dr Gerald Gwinji commended CHMAS for alerting the ministry about the bogus doctor.
On his CV, Gama claimed to have completed a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBCHB) degree at the University of Zimbabwe in 1995, a Masters of Business Administration in 1999 with Unisa and a Masters in Public Health at Manchester University in the United Kingdom in 2001.
He claimed to have worked for a number of organisations as a medical doctor among them Parirenyatwa Hospital and the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare before assuming his new post at the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) in June 2011.
The ACCZ owns CHMAS.
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