A 45-year-old man was yesterday charged at a court in Nakuru for operating an illegal clinic and for posing as a doctor.
The Prosecution desk told the court under the precision of Chief Resident Magistrate Felix Kombo that the accused, Philip Kioko, was arrested by police officers from Nakuru Central Police Station who were accompanied by public health officers on January 18 this year at Shaabab estate within Nakuru town, after he was discovered operating a clinic without a permit from the ministry of public health and for posing as a medical practitioner.
The court heard that the accused further tried to bribe police and the public health officers when he offered them Sh5,000.
The magistrate was told that investigations by police and public health officers revealed that the accused holds no medical or public health qualifications to warrant him to operate a public health and medical facility.
The prosecution added that police and public health officers unearthed expired drugs at the clinic and that the room from which the accused was operating from was not fit to hold a public health facility.
The accused however denied the charges claiming that he was merely an attendant at the clinic. He was released on a cash bond of Sh70,000 before the hearing of the case on February 18.