{"id":4607,"date":"2024-10-03T14:07:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T14:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4607"},"modified":"2024-10-03T14:07:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T14:07:10","slug":"fake-doctor-granted-us100-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4607","title":{"rendered":"Fake Doctor Granted US$100 Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><br>Crimes and Courts Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taurai Prosper Vanhuvaone, a 29-year-old Bulawayo man, has been granted $100 bail by Bulawayo Magistrate Nomagugu Maphosa for allegedly impersonating a doctor at Mpilo Central Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There were no compelling reasons to deny the accused bail,&#8221; Magistrate Maphosa said, ordering Vanhuvaone to reside at his given address, report to the police weekly, and not interfere with State witnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vanhuvaone, from Barbourfields suburb, was arrested for masquerading as Dr. Prosper Mpofu, attending to patients, prescribing drugs, and committing fraud. He faces two counts of fraud and one of misrepresentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to court records, Vanhuvaone:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Attended to patients on September 16, pretending to be a doctor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Misrepresented himself to Faith Hove, charging her $120 for treatment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Defrauded Samantha Ziki of $1,600 by falsely claiming he could secure her admission to Mpilo Central Hospital School of Nursing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Mpilo Hospital Chief Medical Officer Dr. Narcisius Dzvanga expressed shock at Vanhuvaone&#8217;s ability to operate undetected for two years, putting patients&#8217; lives at risk and compromising the institution&#8217;s reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We regret the incident and are exploring ways to contain the situation. We urge the public to be vigilant,&#8221; Dr. Dzvanga said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vanhuvaone&#8217;s case has been postponed to October 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key Quotes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;There were no compelling reasons to deny the accused bail.&#8221; &#8211; Magistrate Nomagugu Maphosa<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;We regret the incident and are exploring ways to contain the situation.&#8221; &#8211; Dr. Narcisius Dzvanga<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crimes and Courts Correspondent Taurai Prosper Vanhuvaone, a 29-year-old Bulawayo man, has been granted $100 bail by Bulawayo Magistrate Nomagugu Maphosa for allegedly impersonating a doctor at Mpilo Central Hospital.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-and-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4609,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions\/4609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}