TikTok Dr “Matthew Lani” arrested while sneaking into hospital

Dr Matthew Lani has been arrested and is now in police custody after the fake medical professional tried to sneak into Helen Joseph.

The TikTok influencer was revealed to be a fake earlier this month, but only after building 300 000 followers on TikTok through giving medical advice, selling fake weight loss pills and hosting a radio show on a legitimate radio station.

After going viral for all the wrong reasons, TikTok influencer claiming to be a doctor, “Dr Matthew” Bongani Lani, has been apprehended by law enforcement as he was trying to sneak into Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg.around “Dr Matthew,” a viral sensation with hundreds of thousands of TikTok followers who had been giving out medical advice, selling phoney weight loss pills and even had a radio show on Radio 2000.

Among the claims that began alerting social media users that Lani was not who he said he was, were that he had started his medicine degree at 14 years old, and that he was the “youngest doctor to own a pharmaceutical company in South Africa.” It gets worse, as the department says “Immediately after being apprehended, Lani requested to go to the bathroom only to attempt to escape by jumping through the bathroom window.” Security had to call for reinforcements to chase down Lani who was eventually apprehended again.has been making rounds on X, showing one of the hospital security’s attempts to apprehend Lani. In it, a bloodied Lani is heard denying that the stethoscope is his and he has a surgical mask in his left hand.

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