NIGERIA (Abuja)-The Registrar, Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), Dr. Abdulmumini Ibrahim, said on Friday that the council had successfully prosecuted 23 quacks in the medical profession in Nigeria.

Ibrahim told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the council was poised to sanitise the profession to restore standards.

He added that activities of quacks would no longer be tolerated.

“Part of our achievements last year was to prosecute quacks; I made mention of membership of the council that is cut across the states of the federation.

“What we have in the states are state monitoring committees; these state monitoring committees are under the auspices of the director of medical services in the state ministry of health.

“They do the monitoring of functions of the council in their states, when they identify the quacks and the suspected doctors or quacks, they report them.

“We have a department called the inspectorate and monitoring, this department will investigate and report that quack to the law enforcement agencies.

“Last year alone, we had about 23 cases before the courts and we are following these cases in various parts of the country,“ he said.