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. "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.
