India: 10 fake doctors nabbed for practicing cosmetology and diabetology

[Dalit Freedom]

10 docs face rap for practisingcosmetology and diabetology

Chennai: Less than a month after 22-year-old medico P Santhosh Kumar's death on May 17, apparently due to a botched hair transplant surgery, at least 10 doctors in the state are under the cosh for advertising themselves as cosmetologists and diabetologists despite lacking proper qualifications.

The Tamil Nadu Medical Council, which is probing the medico's death, has asked the 10 doctors to explain their "misconduct" in promoting themselves in an online directory as specialists in cosmetology and diabetology without having the degrees required to label themselves as such.

If the council finds them guilty of misconduct, the doctors are likely to face disciplinary action, including suspension or termination of their medical licences.

The council has drawn up a list of 30 doctors across at least seven specialities for "soliciting patients" through online advertisements. The code of medical ethics in the Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics Regulations, 2003 of the Tamil Nadu Medical Council regards putting out such ads as an "unethical act".

On Monday, medical council president Dr K Senthil said preliminary investigations revealed that many doctors in the state have been using "fake" or "unrecogonised" degrees to lure patients particularly for cosmetic treatments and diabetes.

"While it is wrong to advertise, we found that cosmetology and diabetology are the most abused medical degrees," he said. "MBBS graduates are illegally performing cosmetic surgery."

The council had earlier this month sent notices to Dr A Vineeth Suryakumar, an MBBS doctor who is not a cosmetologist, and anaesthetist Dr Hariprasad Kasturi in connection with the death of Santhosh Kumar.

The council had earlier also issued a stern warning to a Chennai-based MBBS graduate for offering cosmetic treatment after a six-month course in Singapore.

"A doctor should have a postgraduate degree in dermatology or plastic surgery to practise cosmetology," Senthil said. "An online survey showed that many doctors who did not have either of these degrees called themselves cosmetologists."
All the doctors must didplay their degree certificates in the hospital or hospital must have a record to show it to those who wants to see

Another field that doctors widely abuse is diabetology.

"While MBBS-qualified doctors can treat diabetes, what is objectionable is that they describe themselves as diabetologists without a postgraduate degree in endocrinology or general medicine," Senthil said.

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[Dalit Freedom]

People from Pakistan before spending your hard earned money be very carefull...maybe look at chinese hospitals ...

 

[fajlulhaq]

People from Pakistan before spending your hard earned money be very carefull...maybe look at chinese hospitals ...

yes all pakistanis should get medical aid by pakistani doctors . if don't have doctors come to bangladesh we have better doctors.

 

[Dalit Freedom]

ok folks anyone in endia should consider bangladesh for medical treatment as according to this news most of our doctors are cheats [hilar][hilar][hilar]

yes all pakistanis should get medical aid by pakistani doctors . if don't have doctors come to bangladesh we have better doctors.

 

[fajlulhaq]

ok folks anyone in endia should consider bangladesh for medical treatment as according to this news most of our doctors are cheats [hilar][hilar][hilar]

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ISLAMABAD: After finding the educational degrees of 31 ‘doctors’ and ‘dentists’ to be fake during verification over the last four weeks, the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has tracked down seven more individuals, including a woman, practising medicine in the country with fake or forged registration certificates. Ironically, some of them are serving in government-run health facilities.

Having struck names of these fake or forged degree-holders off the list of registered medical practitioners, the council has recommended strict action, which may be fine, imprisonment or both under the PMDC Ordinance 1962, by the executive district officers concerned against them, official sources said here Wednesday.

Since its foundation in 1962, the PMDC has a department where those wanting to practice medicine and dentistry in the country submit their degrees and certificates for verification. Once the degrees are verified, the council formally allows doctors and dentists to practice.

In September 2009, the PMDC moved beyond its role of verifying degrees on receipt. In a bid to ensure lawful practice of medicine and dentistry, it wrote to the heads of the country’s all public and private healthcare facilities to send copies of the degrees and PMDC registration certificates of the doctors and dentists working under them for free verification.

A special ‘Central Verification Unit’ was also put in place to check genuineness of the medical and dental practitioners’ credentials submitted. As the degrees and registration certificates began coming in, the unit got functional and commenced scrutiny of the documents received. In the process, the unit found many degrees and PMDC registration certificates to be fake or forged, prompting cancellation of their holders’ registration.

There followed a request by the council to Federal Investigation Agency for investigation against these fake doctors and dentists, who claimed to have obtained degrees between 2000 and 2006.

And now during the verification of the degrees sent in by the government’s health facilities and executive district officers (health), the PMDC has found seven individuals practising medicine at private and government facilities while using either fake registration certificates or those issued to legal medical practitioners.

The PMDC has developed an online degree registration system, which, according to an official, will help people know if doctors or dentists they consult are genuine and licensed and thus, checking quackery.
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[fajlulhaq]

Fake doctors in Pakistan

Some 70,000 quacks with bogus medical degrees are said to be endangering lives across the country. But the recent news of a fake doctors’ recruitment scam at the District Headquarters Hospital in Rawalpindi raises new concerns about the infiltration of such charlatans into our public healthcare institutions. Several senior health officials have already been arrested for the hiring of at least four people — three of them brothers — whose medical certificates were found to be bogus. One was taken on by the hospital as a neurosurgeon no less. While all those found guilty ought to be prosecuted and punished, more comprehensive preventative measures are also in order.

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For starters, the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council could ask all public and private hospitals in the Rawalpindi-Islamabad area to send a list of their doctors for verification. The PMDC needs to introduce a multi-tiered checking and monitoring system which should include routine degree verification in all hospitals. Fake doctors are either not registered with the PMDC or hold phoney registration certificates, and as such unqualified doctors can be weeded out without harassing genuine practitioners. Hospitals which fail to verify credentials with the PMDC before hiring new doctors should be appropriately penalised. Detecting fake doctors requires diligent regulation as well as public awareness and prompt reporting by medical professionals who are suspicious of a colleague’s credentials.[/COLOR]
important]Not many people perhaps know that the PMDC’s website allows the general public to check if their doctors are registered with the council and are thus licensed to practise medicine. The PMDC and the health authorities should encourage the general public, through advertisements and posters, to be involved in exposing fake doctors in this manner. After all it is the public that will benefit most, in terms of safer healthcare, by the eradication of bogus physicians.
Source : Dawn​