Dowa District Hospital anaesthetist Emmanuel Chiweta risks having his professional licence revoked if Medical Council of Malawi (MCM) investigators find him guilty of sexual molestation and rape.<\/p>\n
Chiweta was arrested on January 19 2018 following a complaint a husband to one of the sexually molested pregnant women lodged at Dowa Police Station.<\/p>\n
He was released on police bail the following day after the complainant reportedly withdrew the case against him.<\/p>\n
However, MCM assistant Registrar, Richard Ndovi, said on Tuesday that Chiweta risks having his practitioner\u2019s licence revoked if the council\u2019s investigations prove that he is guilty of the charge being levelled against him.<\/p>\n
Ndovi disclosed that the suspect was also subjected to another disciplinary action for sexually molesting a \u201cyoung woman in the SDI clinic\u201d earlier than the rape incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe investigated the case [sexual molestation] and, for now, we are preparing the report. [But] for the recent rape report that came out in The Sunday Time<\/em>s, it is obviously new to us and we have already communicated to the DHO [District Health Officer] that we can continue adding on to the findings we already have,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Ndovi said Chiweta\u2019s action borders on the doctor-patient relationship and trust; hence, the penalties set out in the practitioners\u2019 code are severe for medical officers found guilty of breaching the trust.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you breach the client\u2019s trust, it\u2019s an issue. He can be deregistered if found guilty,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In his reaction to The Sunday Times <\/em>story, Ministry of Health spokesperson, Joshua Malango, said the ministry would not shield the suspect because he has dented the image of the medical profession as well as that of the ministry.<\/p>\n Malango said the withdrawal of the case would not stop the ministry from pursuing the matter further.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I must emphasise that, as a ministry, that doesn\u2019t stop us from pursuing the matter further. This borders on unprofessional conduct, which the ministry cannot condone. We are not going to shield him. In fact, we will not shield anyone suspected to have committed crimes,\u201d Malango said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dowa District Hospital anaesthetist Emmanuel Chiweta risks having his professional licence revoked if Medical Council of Malawi (MCM) investigators find him guilty of sexual molestation and rape. Chiweta was arrested on January 19 2018 following a complaint a husband to one of the sexually molested pregnant women lodged at Dowa Police Station. He was released […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60415,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60411\/revisions\/60415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}