Aborted 1000s of pregnancies after having unprotected
sex with the girls A quintessentially clean, calm
and quiet clinic environment, the calm caresses you with the kind of
cautious care that you cannot help but be conscious of as you come
close to the compound.
Enter Dr. Joshua Drah’s theatre room and
you cannot fail to be struck by the fantastic dreariness of the
facility, a far cry from the exterior fanfare.
The
conscientious looking medical practitioner is resplendent in his
trademark white apparel with his stethoscope dangling daintily over his
shoulders. No professional ever looked more focused and serious on his
job than this self – mitered apostle of abortion operations.
But as Shakespeare put it in Julius Caesar; ‘Every like is not the
same.’ And so the pristine cleanliness of the surgical bed in the
corner, clad in immaculate white bed sheets only looks, but never really
is, cozy and luxurious, if the ordeal of female clients of this
‘Jekyll and Hyde’ of a doctor is anything to go by.
Of course
the pain of surgical operation cannot be wished away even by the most
comfortable of surgical beds. But this is an entirely different kind
of operation; an orgy of sexual assaults by the sex maniac who calls
himself a doctor, the New Crusading GUIDE can confirm.
That a
person be called a doctor is a source of pride and accomplishment to
them, their families, friends and society at large. To their family
and acquaintances, they [doctors] are special people for the simple
reason that their calling is to do their best to save lives.
An
indubitably justified pride that stems from the years of hard work
and sacrifices embedded in their training and more so their very heavy
work schedule allied with an oath (the Hippocratic) binding all medical
officers to act in ways that protect the lives of others at all
times.
And so, several persons in the field have lived up to
the very professional and upright values that constitute the noble
profession, people that Hippocrates (often regarded as the father of
modern medicine) would have been proud of, people who graced the world
of medicine and healing and who the history books would keep a very
good account of.
Some other people in masquerade, parade
illegally operating ‘clinics’ under the guise of having the healing
hand, yet theirs is the ‘hand of disease and destruction. Such is the
story of the sexy and quack abortion expert, Joshua Drah, the man at
the center of our latest under cover exposé.
Having gathered
information about the existence of the ‘illegal abortion hub,’
operated by Drah, we [the Special Investigations Team] of the New
Crusading GUIDE, headed by our ace undercover reporter Anas Aremeyaw
Anas, went in to ascertain the truth, during which time we managed to
plant our cameras in the ‘theatre’.
The videos that we got were
simply unbelievable. It was a peek into the activities of a man who
has for over a decade demeaned womanhood, flouted laws of the land and
supervised numerous abortions – some of which have gone horribly
wrong leading to complications and death of clients in extreme cases.
‘Dr.’Drah – now in the grips of the law following a security raid,
operates an abortion clinic, in an unassuming structure situated at
Madina New Road, around Rawlings Circle. From the outside, the place
has no sign board: ‘Universal Mission Clinic’ is imprinted atop the
inner wall just upon entry.
When quizzed by the Police at the
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Headquarters about the
absence of a sign board, he explained that it was as a result of an
expired operating license which he was working to renew.
For
him, there was always a price to pay for an abortion. Beyond his fee
of between GH¢ 50 and GH¢ 100 that is taken before the operation,
there is for the beautiful clients an extra charge; Sex in the middle of
an abortion.
THE ABORTION ROOM The
‘theatre’ where the entire action [abortion and sex] takes place is an
estimated 12 by 14 ft space – one of several rooms in the clinic.
Incidentally, the room is labeled ‘male ward’ a part of which is the
non-functioning pharmacy.
It contains two beds, one with a
mattress with bed sheet and the other- the abortion bed is customized
with black leathered mattress and a pillow. In spite of successive
scrubs, visible signs of blood clots adorn the feet of the bed.
Close by is a black rubber bag filled with rubber gloves, with which he
probes the crevices of the female ‘underworld’ either to insert pills
or to pull out fetuses.
Then there is some cotton with which
he wipes off blood and whatever residual matter that is disgorged in
the cause of his operation. When clients become nauseous or feel like
vomiting, there is a medical renal dish at their service.
His
operation tools are placed in a nearby rubber bowl filled halfway
with water, the last is a blue bucket in which all the blood clots and
fetal remains are collected.
Other rooms in the clinic are the
female ward, treatment room,a laboratory full of cabinets, toilet and
bathroom area, consulting room and Drah’s office.
The volume
of a television set in the reception area is almost always tuned very
high whiles the operation is ongoing. ‘Dr’ Drah is usually seated in
the course of the operation, the only time that he stands is when he
gives his own form of anesthesia to clients who keep moaning and
groaning presumably from the pain of the sharp instruments – the
‘anesthetic sex’ is brief but intense and usually comes in the middle of
the operation.
NO ASSISTANTS: PAYING THE ‘SEXY’
PRIZE When we go to hospitals, we see doctors always
working with assistants, but not our man Drah. An expert that he is,
Drah is able to single handedly operate as many clients as troop to
his outfit. Hard core video evidence on Drah’s activities shows that
his assistants are only good for cleaning out whatever blood is left
on the operating bench or which might have dripped on the floor- after
an operation.
That is barely the only piece of the abortion
‘action’ that his assistants can see. Theirs is to dispose of the
aborted fetuses. The mode of disposal is simple, add lots of water to
the fetal material and flush the mixture down the clinic manhole. Only
God knows how many fetuses have ended up there.
The reason
why our ‘dr’ works without any assistants is quite simple: their
presence would not allow him to do what he does best in the middle of
an operation- our videos show how this ‘doctor’ has paused in the
middle of several operations to loosen his belt and have sex with the
very clients he is operating on whiles the clients lay on the operating
bench groaning.
In one such footage he explains why he has to
have sex with the particular patient.
Doctor:
It’s been a long time since you did the ‘thing’
Patient:
What did you say?
Doctor: You did the ‘thing’
a long time ago.
Patient: You said I did
what?
Doctor: You haven’t had sex in a long
while.
Patient: Yeah!
Doctor:
Eii! Your ‘thing’ is cute. If you won’t mind let’s have sex to open you
up.
Patient: You said?
Doctor:
I said if you won’t mind let’s have sex so that it will open you up.
Doctor: Or you don’t like that. Let me check and
see. I’m doing this but the thing is rather closing up, why? Mm!
Patient: I don’t know.
Doctor:
I’m inserting my fingers in there but it is still closing up why?
Patient: I don’t know.
Doctor:
I have to do the ‘thing’ to open it up and you are saying no. I’ll
just have to put it in there one, two, three that’s it, and then it
will open up.
Patient: Ok!
Doctor:
should I put it inside? Are you sure? Then come forward so I will put
it inside. When I put it in there ‘one, two, three’ then that is it,
it will be ok. After Bout
Doctor: Push back.
Patient: She pushes back
Doctor:
Good!
Patient: She makes small screams when
the doctor starts the procedure.
ARREST
With the video footage we obtained from our secret cameras, we sought
collaboration with the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and
Panthers Unit of the Ghana police Service , to conduct a raid on the
premises.
With about a dozen armed men and other officers, the
joint team [CID/Tiger Eye] mapped out a strategy that was eventually
to lead to the arrest of Drah.
The modus operandi was for
Tiger to go with his girlfriend to perform an abortion. After the
doctor had agreed so to do, the team would leap into action.
The plan worked perfectly, as the doctor was eventually picked and the
entire clinic searched. The CID picked a few exhibits that were to be
used as evidence during prosecution. Amongst others, the operating
table, the abortion tools, a bucket with some blood and polythene filled
with cotton and gloves were all picked up. Also found in his office
were boxes of aphrodisiacs.
FROM A GENEALOGY OF QUACK
DOCTORS/ SON OF A QUACK DOCTOR So why would someone
without any medical training take to such a delicate trade that involves
lives?
We gathered from a conversation at the premises, two
workers discussing how far the doctor has come; amongst other things,
the heart throbbing moments when the place was on the verge of closure
and how they had to ‘recoil’ to the current place to escape
visibility.
The also reveal the ‘Doctor’s’ long family history
with abortion trade which dates back to his father, a pioneer of
abortion clinics in the area. The doctor is no stranger to controversy
as he was once arrested and the clinic closed because he purchased a
‘connection’ car.
Excerpts of the recording are as
follows:
Worker 1: It became a police
case, doctor was arrested, the man said all doctor did here was
abortion; he disgraced doctor.
Worker 2: Really?
Worker
1: Yes, They came here very early in the morning all over this place,
the police, camera people (TV Africa crew)
Worker 2:
Hmm
Worker 1: At first, we had so many clients …
Worker 2: Abortion?
Worker
1: Abortion and other treatment, there were so many clients. So the
place was closed down for about five months. During this time, he
conducted the abortion at home. So we ended up having to change location
because of the man’s posturing
Worker 2:
I thought an abortion had led to loss of life or something as serious
as that
Worker 1: No, here if you take such a
case to the Police, it would become a foolish case because in the
whole of Madina, it is his father who first brought abortion to
Madina. So even when the Police hears Universal, they know its
abortion.
They’ve never arrested anyone here and no life’s ever
been lost. They know that when it comes to abortion, we [Universal]
are champions. Doctor as you see him, has gone through a lot!
Worker
2: Really, I thought it was death of a client or
something grievous
Worker 1: No, everyone in
Madina knows it was his father who brought abortion here. There was no
clinic when Universal opened, so Mighty Clinic also learnt from
doctor’s father.
CLIENTELE BASE
From all the video footage that we have on tape of his activities, one
thing stands tall, the class of people who patronize his services,
they are predominantly young girls.
The young girls, we
estimate were in their ‘twenties,’ even though occasionally we saw
teenage girls who were in to have abortions. When an operation – the
highest of which lasts 15 minutes leaves a patient in some pain, they
are made to lie on beds in the female ward and be monitored by medical
assistants.
On one occasion, as a girl lay on the bed in
agonizing pain, the doctor upon being informed of the pain by an
assistant, prescribed that she drinks ‘Malta Guinness’ – a non
alcoholic beverage.
His clientele brought into sharp focus the
issue of sexual enthusiasm that leads to teenage pregnancy allied with
the dangerous and lethal issues of abortion, which was a first point
of call to many girls.
In the second part of this piece, we
bring you exclusive answers that ‘Dr. Drah’ gave to the Police CID
during questioning at his clinic and the Police Headquarters and also
give you his reaction when evidence was played to him.
We
take a peek into the abortion statistics and also bring into focus the
position of our laws on abortion. Was the consent he obtained from
the girls before having sex with them valid in law? Book your advanced
copies NOW. Stay Tuned!
source: New Crusading Guide
