Records show that on the 28th of June 2012, which would have been the 8th of such walk-in visits by the woman in question, Dr. Okafor had cause to stop the visit without taking any notes from her and did not bill for the visit. This has been clearly, and logically, explained by Dr Okafor through his lawyers. He immediately discontinued making a written record of her visit that day, having only written the generic opener notation. “Nil c/o.” This notation (which means no new complaint) is used when, upon asking a patient “What brings you here today?” he or she opens for example by saying, “Nothing, really.” The doctor puts down “nil c/o,” The reason for the visit is perhaps an ongoing issue e.g. a prescription refill. It is the business-minded approach of a busy practitioner who starts making records even while conducting the clinical interview.

When the woman in question then said she was there just to say hello as that was the only way she could actually get to see him, in other words, that she was only there on a social visit, this revealed a risk of her developing a pattern of coming to the clinic for social visits when it should be strictly for medical consults. At this point, Dr. Okafor immediately stopped the visit, erased the opening notation of nil c/o on his electronic pad, and discontinued the encounter. It was this act of aborting a fake visit, in real-time, weeks before any call was made that the College in its wisdom has come to libel his name with “the deletion of medical record!!!” The reader should kindly note that: In the several years of vigorous record review and investigation not one case of actual deletion of records, false billing, or any such malpractices were found in his office records of thousands of patients from multiple treatment settings over 5 years of comprehensive community medical practice. There can be no clearer, firmer sign of the malice with which this witch-hunting was pursued.