Fake Pharmacist Harms Teen Girl Through Injection

Police successful Bauchi State person arrested a antheral operating a pharmaceutical store at  Yalwa of Bauchi metropolis without the indispensable qualifications to signifier arsenic a healthcare professional, causing wounded to a 15-year-old girl.

The bid said it received a missive of ailment from the authorities Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management against 1 Mr. Ibrahim, the main enforcement serviceman of Hamdala Special Medicine Store located successful country for unprofessional negligence and degrading treatment.

According to the constabulary report, the unlicensed pharmacist was apprehended for injecting the 15-year-old girl, starring to injuries connected her buttocks.

“A 15-year-old pistillate patient, Maryam Magaji, residing successful Yelwa Lebura, Bauchi, experienced wellness issues and was taken to the medicine store successful Yelwa country for aesculapian treatment, wherever she was administered an injection for malaria, which subsequently led to important bodily harm,” constabulary said.

Police spokesperson CSP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil told journalists successful Bauchi yesterday that Maryam was aboriginal evacuated to a infirmary wherever aesculapian professionals confirmed that her injuries were a nonstop effect of the injection, pursuing which the antheral was arrested.

“During the interrogation, the idiosyncratic was identified arsenic Ibrahim Hassan Mamman, a 27-year-old nonmigratory of Isa Yuguda Guest House successful Bauchi, who voluntarily confessed to the allegations against him.

“Mamman was said to person recounted the incidental which occurred connected July 1, 2025, erstwhile a person accompanied his sister, Maryam Magaji Garba, to his medicine store.

“The sibling expressed concerns astir symptoms that could perchance bespeak malaria and typhoid. The fishy prescribed artemether tablets; however, the member of the unfortunate insisted connected an injection for malaria treatment”, constabulary added.

Report said the miss was administered an 80-mg intramuscular injection for 3 consecutive days, and 2 weeks later, her member informed the fishy of abnormal changes astatine the tract of the injection, which helium assured him that it would resoluteness itself.

Police said, “Eventually, the member contacted the fishy again, reporting a deteriorating condition, starring to the victim’s admittance to Bayara Hospital for treatment. Further investigations revealed that the fishy willfully injected the unfortunate contempt his deficiency of cognition successful diagnosing wellness issues oregon administering injections.

“A consequent hunt of the suspect’s pharmacy uncovered expired medications, including Children’s Tuxil, manufactured by Fidson Healthcare Plc, which expired successful August 2024; Tuxil suspension, manufactured by Tuyil Pharmaceuticals Ltd., expiring connected May 17, 2025; and assorted different medications acceptable to expire wrong the month”.

The authorities commissioner of police, Sani-Omolori Aliyu, has directed the lawman commissioner of constabulary successful complaint of the Criminal Investigation Department to behaviour a thorough and nonsubjective probe into the incident.