Fake Gynecologist From Bowie Faces Multiple Lawsuits

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY MD — Ten anonymous women have filed a lawsuit against a man who fraudulently obtained a gynecologist license and worked at Prince George’s Hospital Center, according to reports.

The women are suing the Bowie man who went by the name Dr. Charles J. Akoda. The 54-year-old man’s real name is Oluwafemi Charles Igberase.

Igberase delivered babies and offered prenatal care at the hospital by obtaining a fake Social Security number to obtain a Maryland medical license, according to court documents.

He pleaded guilty on Nov. 15, 2016 to misusing a Social Security Account number to fraudulently obtain a medical license in Maryland. On March 2, 2017, Igberase was sentenced to six months in jail, three years of supervised release, home detention for six months and an assessment of $100.

One of Igberase’s patients, a young mother from Capitol Heights, told NBC Washington that she does not want to have kids because of her experience with Igberase. She said she thought she was losing her life during her delivery.

"I'm scarred for life. I do not want any more kids at all because of that. And I do not trust any male doctor at all anymore," Jazmine Tinsley said.

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In 1998, after receiving his third ECFMG certification in the name Charles John Nosa Akoda, Igberase was admitted to a residency program in New Jersey. Igberase was dismissed from the program two years later after officials learned that the Social Security number he used did not belong to him.

In 2011, Igberase also used the third Social Security number to apply for federal education loans for his children. That same year, using a fourth fake Social Security number that belonged to someone else, and other fraudulent documents in the name Charles John Nosa Akoda, Igbergase obtained a medical license in Maryland, after completing a U.S. residency program.

The lawsuit states that Prince George's Hospital Center should have realized that Igberase was a fraud. He worked at the hospital from 2008 to 2016.

"We are disappointed that our expectation of integrity was not met in the case of Dr. Akoda given his complex sophisticated identity theft scheme," the hospital said in an email to NBC Washington.

Fox 5 reports at least 100 other women have told lawyers that they were patients of Igberase and plan to seek damages.

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