A medical practitioner in Uganda has been arrested after he tried to lure a female patient into having sex with him for him to give her negative test results.

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Reports indicate that the woman was sent to the HIV testing facility along Lumumba Avenue to get her test done as it was required for all domestic workers travelling to the middle east. she did the tests. She was told to go home and wait for the results.

"She did the tests on February 6. On February 14, she was called by the suspect to go pick her results. The results indicated that she was HIV positive, which she disputed. She did another test at another facility and results came out negative," Kampala Metropolitan Police deputy spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire told the Daily Monitor on Sunday.

The woman was reported to have taken the negative result slip to the facility and met the suspect because the labour company required a report from the recommended testing facility.

Following a brief conversation, the suspect allegedly offered to give the victim negative results in exchange for sex.

The victim agreed to meet up with the accused but informed the police of the meeting up, giving them directions to the hotel they were supposed to meet at. Officers waited for them to enter the hotel that's when they arrested the subject.

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"She informed our officers and they tracked the duo until they were in the lodge and it was time to have sex. That is when our officers stormed the area and arrested him and later took him to Nateete Police Station," said Owoyesigyire.

Kampala Metropolitan Police deputy spokesperson said the suspect could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted of attempted rape charges as the sentence is heavy.