The Medical and Dental Council of Ghana, (MDC) has warned that quack professionals and forged credentials are putting lives at risk and undermining the medical practice in Ghana.

Addressing the media on September 5, 2025, the Registrar of MDC, Dr Divine Ndonbi Banyubala, disclosed that between 2024 and the third quarter of 2025, four individuals were arrested for engaging in unlicensed medical practices, while several are under investigations, with prosecutions pending.

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"We indicated that we have had four such cases of forgery of qualifications. In one case, there was a forgery of qualification from Ireland and Nigeria, and this related to the spouse of a diplomat.

"We also had one case of a forged permanent certificate. This was a practitioner who had not yet finished the requirement of the provisional license to get onto a permanent register, that had gone to clone a permanent register and then put her credentials in there for purposes of acquiring a job somewhere when she was not due to get that. Then there was one case of forgery of examination results," he remarked.

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Dr Divine Ndonbi Banyubala further disclosed that the MDC will partner with the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to implement a practitioner name tag and stamp policy by 2026 to make it easier for patients to verify the authenticity of healthcare professional.

“Detecting quackery is a very difficult task. One of the things that we are doing, and we are taking it up with the National Health Insurance Authority, is to ensure a policy we call practitioner name tag and stamp policy so that we expect that when you remain in the care environment, you should be professionally and appropriately tagged with your name, your picture ID and your designation.

“Because even if you get to the healthcare space there are all kinds of doctors, but that confuses people. Not all of them are medical doctors, and it creates patients’ health and safety issues,” he said.

MDC is the Statutory Body established by law, under Part II of the Health Professions Regulatory Bodies Act, 2013 (Act 857), to secure in the public interest the highest standards in the training and practice of medicine and dentistry in Ghana.

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