By Ric Stevens, Open Justice Reporter of 
A Napier man has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges alleging that he impersonated a medical practitioner and performed operations he was not permitted to do.
The man appeared in Napier District Court. Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King
The man appeared in the Napier District Court on Wednesday.
Judge Russell Collins granted interim name suppression and remanded him to appear again on 13 October.
The prosecution has been brought by the Ministry of Health, which was represented via audio-video link by a Wellington senior Crown prosecutor, Fiona Cleary.
There were 14 charges of impersonating a medical practitioner and five of performing a not permitted operation.
The ministry said in an email that it would not be commenting further at this stage as the matter was now before the courts.
* This story originally appeared in the New Zealand Herald.
