Doctor Macow from Somalia arrested in Somaliland

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Dhakhtar laga hor-joogsaday Baaritaan uu ku sameyn lahaa dad Bukaan ah

Jimco, Maarso 28, 2014 (HOL) — Booliiska Somaliland ayaa shalay xabsiga u taxaabay Dr:Cali Macow oo hawlgal caafimaad ka waday magaaladda Hargeysa taas oo ilaa dhawr kun oo qof isku diiwaangeliyeen si loo baadho.

 

Dadweynahan oo iskag kala yimid dhamaan dhulka soomaalidu degto,ayaa saf dheer u gallay sidii ay ula kulmi lahaayeen digtoorka, haseyeeshee isagoo ku gudda jiray hawlihiisii caafimaad ayaa xaruntii uu dadka ku dabiibayey ee Xabiibi Xanaan ciidanku ka soo kaxeeyeen, kuwaas su’aalo ka waydiinaya aqoontiisa caafimaad.

 

Dr. Macow oo maalmihii u dambeeyey la xayeysiinayey inuu dalka imanayo, ayaa shalay markii uu dalka yimid ciidanku xoog ku galeen goobtii uu wax ku baadhayey, isla markaana albaabadda u laabay xaruntii caafimaad ee ay dadku iska diiwaangelinayeen.

 

Wakiilka digtoor Macow ayaa sheegtay inay rusqadda imaanshiiyaha ka qaadatay wasiirka Caafimaadka Xaglo toosiye, isla markaana si sharci ah ku yimid, haseyeeshee aanay garanayn sababta shaki looga qaaday imaantinkiisa.

 

Wakiilka digtoor Macow Intisaar Maxamed Cali Qoys oo ka hadlaysay qaabkii sharci ee uu dhakhtarku ku yimid Hargeysa ayaa tidhi “Waxaan ahay Wakiilka Dr. Cali Macow Aways, Horta markii ugu horresay ee aanu imanaynay Somaliland waxaanu la soo xidhiidhnay Wasaarada Caafimaadka Somaliland, oo ogolaatay imaanshiyaha Dr.Macow inuu Somaliland yimaado, oo uu ka fuliyo hawlo Caafimaad,”

 

Qaar ka mid ah dadweynaha bukaanka ah ee dhakhtarkan sugayay ayaa aad uga xumaaday talaabadda shaqo joojinta lagu sameeyey Digtoorka.

 

Si aanu xog dheeraad ah uga helno xukuumadda ayaa waxaanu la xidhiidhnay wasiirka Caafimaadka Saleebaaan Xaglo toosiye iyo wasiir ku xigeenka Caafimaadka Nimco Qawdhan, haseyeeshee telefoonkoogii gacanta way qabanwaayeen.

 

Sidoo kale, waxaanu la xidhiidhnay gudoomiyah xirfadleyda caafimaadka Somaliland Luul Jirde, waxaanay HOL u sheegtay in aanay wax faalo ah arrintaasi ka bixinayn, balse la xidhiidhno ciidanka Booliska, kuwaas oo iyaguna ka gaabsaday ka hadalka arriintan.

 

Si kastaba ha ahaatee, sida wararka ku helayno waxa jira dhakhaatiir badan oo aan ogoleyn inay dhakhaatiir kale dalka yimaadaan,kuwaas oo mar walba carqalad galiya dhakhaatiirta hawlgalo caafimaad ka fuliya dalka, sidoo hore dhakhaatiir Masar ka timid oo baadhitaano caafimaad oo bilaash ah dalka ka waday ayaa waxa billo ka hor carqalad kala kulmeen dhakhaatiir reer Somaliland oo doonaya inay kooto ku haystaan bukaanka Somaliland, iyadoo cid kasta oo hawlo caafimaad dalka u yimaadda carqaladeeya.

 

Dadweynaha Somaliland ayaa aad uga cadhooday arrintan, kuwaas oo xukuumadda ku eedeeyey inay is hortaagto dhakhtar si weyn loo sugayey maalmihi u dambeeyey oo la ogaa imaanshiyihiisa.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Somaliland: Unlicensed Doctor Arrested in Hargeisa

Saturday, 29 March 2014 01:52

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L-R Deputy Health minister Nimo Qawdan, Dr Maow with Host Intisar M Ali holding alleged Drs permitL-R Deputy Health minister Nimo Qawdan, Dr Maow with Host Intisar M Ali holding alleged Drs permit

By: Osman A.M.

HARGEISA (Somalilandsun) - The Government of Somaliland has curtailed the professional services of a private medical practitioner after it has emerged that he was not issued with a professional license to operate locally by the relevant authorities mandated with that.

Hargeisa Police arrested Dr. Ali Maow Aweys at a private clinic in Hargeisa on Thursday on suspicion of not possessing a professional license warranting the practice of medicine in the country after the Mogadishu born Doctor from Europe through his host parties decided to establish a clinic in Hargeisa which even before his entry to the country saw people book for advanced consultations. It is said that a consultation card booked in fulfillment of seeking medical advice from the doctor costs $40 a head exorbitantly higher when compared with fees charged by general physicians -$ 5 being the cheapest & the most expensive charging for & $ 20 for the same services.

The Deputy Minister for Health Hon. Nimo Hussein Qowdan while commenting on the arrest of Dr. Maow Aweys concurred that the Government was not questioning his qualifications or as to his competency but on whether he obtained the license to provide healthcare services as a private doctor in the country.

Ms Qowdan clarified that prior to the doctor's arrival people connected to him approached the Ministry to facilitate his entry into country as he is not a Somalilander they feared that he would be denied access at the airport & after considering their argument we decided as a ministry to correspond with airport's authorities to allow the doctor enter the country.

Furnishing the press further on the matter Ms Qowdan said,

"As a ministry we do not issue visas to people coming to the country as that falls within the purview of immigration department but when his local hosts approached us seeking our help we decided to facilitate his smooth entry into our soil given the fact that the doctor originally hails from Somalia & the current stringent security screening at our airports, we decided to write a letter asking Dr. Aweys to be let in the country".

The Deputy Minister when asked about whether a practicing licensed has been issued to the doctor, she said; "Though it is the ministry that issues the license to both locally & foreign trained doctors, that role is however vested with the National Health Professional Commission (NHPC) that among other functions is empowered with issuance of licenses to professional healthcare providers upon fulfilling the parameters set in the governing statute".

According to the information provided by reliable sources the police found close to 2000 carbonated copies of official receipts at his premises at the time of effecting arrest which translates to 2000 patients seeing him in the couple of days that he was in the country & if it true that he charging $ 40 per head the arrested doctor pocketed a $ 80,000 in less than a week.

Dr. Ali Maow Aweys was issued with a tourist visa upon setting his foot in the country & it is very naïve therefore for a person of his status to start medical practice in a foreign land without fulfilling the conditions legalizing his trade regardless of existence of emergency situations that were to be attended to. Somaliland is not 'No-Man's Land' that every Tom, Dick & Harry come and establishes business without following the right procedures. Independent & sovereign as it is, it enacts Laws to be dully respected & the Government need to generate revenue from taxes remitted by professional human resource labor obtained through the practice of varied professional trades which is envisaged in its investment plan.

That Dr. Maow Aweys pocketed $ 80,000 for the few days that he was in the country with no taxation cannot be gainsaid. We at Somalilandsun appreciate the swiftness with which the police acted in apprehending the quack doctor who swindled hard earned of our poor folks & laying to his guests that he is a tourist yet he is trading in illegal trade coupled with evading taxes. Appropriate actions must be taken against him so as to deter such unscrupulous caliber of people ever setting foot in Somaliland.

Meanwhile NHPC have issued notices to all locally & foreign trained healthcare providers to forward their academic & professional testimonials so as to formally register their businesses with the commission. NHPC as a national commission is tasked with enforcement & regulatory roles and as such ought not to inactively sit for the occurrence of sagas like this to undertake their duties. NHPC is deemed to have an updated data of healthcare providers operating in the country with each business furnishing the commission with its physical location & the branch of healthcare engaged in as it is an absurdity for a general physician with no specialization to charge poor citizens a whole $ 40 a head for just seeing him yet the Deputy Health Minister told the press that he is a general physician which means he is a general doctor with a first/bachelor degree in medicine & surgery as opposed to a specialized doctor narrowing to treatment of particular diseases.

Elsewhere print media reported that a press conference was called on Tuesday 2 days before the doctor's arrest by a lady host named Intisar Mohamed Ali who said;

"I want to tell the people of Somaliland that the ministry of Health facilitated the coming of our Dr. Aweys & a permit was issued to him by none other than Health Minister Hon. Suleiman Issa Haglatosie in person.

Initially the doctor was to attend to few patients but due to raised demand brought about by advanced booking it seems he would go before returning for a second trip. I want to tell the people of Somaliland in general & patients in particular not to worry as everyone would be given remedy to cure the disease they are suffering from".

 

[Alpha Blondy]

this is disgraceful. without strong regulatory procedures folks like Macow will continue to prey on Somaliland citizen. strong measures ought to be put in place to deter his type from practicing. he should be arrested, fined and then deported.

[SomaliPhilosopher]

what the hell this is the doctor with the permanent hiiraan.com ad?

[Hawdian]

I dont care where he is from but people like him who prey on the weak and poor should be arrested and put in jail. 80K for what? Unbelievable.

[SomaliPhilosopher]

Though, Hawdian if this is indeed the case, is this not telling of the status of healthcare in Somaliland? Is it revealing of a grave demand not being filled? Though, that would be surprising as I have been to nice healthcare facilities in Hargeisa.

[Homunculus]

This should be in the General thread but Somaliland did the right thing here, he is not licensed to practice medicine in SL but there should be further investigations to make sure the lady's claims that he was licensed by the minister are not true.

[burahadeer]

He is not the only one.Continous ads come in your phone almost everyday about doctors coming as far away as from Russia, S.Africa,Kenya etc and charge hefty fees.They go to all major towns staying a wk or so.That literally translates to K 100s.Sad thing is no one knows if they r real doctors or how good.All led by Somalis.

[Mooge]

macow is a real doctor who got in trouble in UK after performing FGM.

 

somaliland is a corrupt entity anyways so why does it matter? lool adigo nool baa lagu ibsanaya so it makes no sense to arrest a minority doctor in order to send a message. capture the real fake uneducated ones calling themselves doctors in hargeisa.

[Hawdian]

@Somali Philosopher, surely you can see this looks very dodgy how many other "german" doctors go on holidays to SomalilNd get 80 k for one weeks "sightseeing" the man Moa is a snake oil salesman with his jarmaal dawo . Lets hope now he is in jail they throw the keys away.

[SomaliaRising]

There is no freedom in SNM towns. First Press and now Doctors.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

^^ Press from Somalia was never appreciated in SL . Somaliland want nothing to do with a country that guns down every journalist.

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

 

Meesha maafiya aa ka taliso. Qof xuquuqdiisa lagu tumanaayo.

[Hawdian]

^ why you dont let the police and authorities deal with this man . Secondly if this man is so good surely he would go to koonfur and help millions of needy there. If thats not the case and he is an snakeoil salesman they got every right in the law to stop him and imprison him. That clip proofs nothing . MaCCOw is a danger and not authorized to pratice medicine in Somaliland a country he had never been nor wants to be except to steal poor peoples money 80k les than a week waxu iman la,a xarami ha la karbasho .I rest my case.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

I think Macow learned his lesson and never set foot again in SL he will be deported tomorrow morning.