DOCTORS, just like lawyers, judges, among other professionals, hold significant authority within society. We all seek their expertise and their presumed extensive knowledge of medicine to help us overcome ailments and live happy, healthy lives. 

Upon entering a doctor’s room, we should all experience a sense of relief and optimism that our health concerns will be effectively and properly managed, just as we enter a courtroom hoping a learned professional judge will dispense justice.  A doctor’s room must be a place of comfort and healing and not a place of despair. 

Which explains why we feel apprehensive and angry at allegations that Dr Hlalele Mofubelu, a well-known physician at Naledi Family Clinic in Maseru, has been abusing his rooms to prey on unsuspecting female patients. 

The allegations are as shocking as they are debilitating. 

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