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| GOIANIA, Brazil - The Military Police in Goiás have arrested a man posing as a doctor in the Emergency Hospital Goiânia, said a spokesman for the hospital on Sunday. Police said that he was working in a women's reception ward.
Emergency Hospital Goiania (photo: routenews.com.br)
After receiving a complaint investigating officers found the man wearing a white coat with a hospital badge and stethoscope. Preliminary findings are that the man had been working at the hospital since last Tuesday.
The man was taken by police to the 8th District Police Station in Goiânia where he as interrogated. After investigators determined that the man did not have a medical license, he was charged with practicing medicine illegally.
Goiânia is the capital and largest city in the Brazilian state of Goiás. With a population of just over two million, it is the 11th-largest city in Brazil. A planned city, created in 1933 to take over as the state capitol, it is perhaps best known today for its collection of art deco buildings, touted as the largest such collection in the world. Mostly built in the 1940s and 1950s, they have been recognized by the National Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage.
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