Quacks are not limited to the low paying slum areas of the town are posing as General practitioners. courtesy weak and toothless MCI and unwilling authorities you can find quacks posing as specialists in big hospitals. A recent investigation by CNN-IBN has found it through RTI route and tracked down some of the doctors. Their investigation showed involvement of police as well.
Using the Government's Right to Information tool, the team of CNN-IBN found out just how many people are currently working as doctors in many top hospitals of the country when the Medical Council of India (MCI) isn’t even recognizing their MBBS degrees.The team got a list of 53 doctors and tracked down some of them.
Here’s an excerpt from the conversation with one of them:
CNN-IBN: Good name, sir?
Doctor: O mera naam to bada kharab sa hai, yaar. (Oh, I don’t have a good name)
CNN-IBN: Shubh naam sir? (Your good name sir)
Doctor: Shubh naam nahi mera naam hi naam hai (I have a famous name.)
CNN-IBN: Kya hai sir? (What is it, sir?)Doctor: Captain Gautam.
But Captain Gautam is actually Dr Pravesh Raj. MCI records say he got a fake MD degree from the Sechenov Medical Academy, Moscow in 2000.The MCI even filed a police complaint against him in Delhi in 2004.
The SIT filed a Right To Information query with the Delhi police asking how many cases did they register based on complaints filed by the MCI. The application also sought information on if some of these fake doctors prosecuted.The Delhi police provided a list of 93 doctors with fake medical degrees, with cases registered against them.But no case was registered against Pravesh Raj, who continues to treat unsuspecting patients at the Railway Hospital in Haryana's Yamunanagar.
The team found that records of the Medical Council of India on doctors with fake degrees and the cases registered by the Delhi police just do not match.
Raj is not the only defaulter.
The team also uncovered Dr Ankur Jain a skin specialist at the Bhagwati super-speciality hospital in Delhi.
Dr Vivek Kumar is currently a Resident Medical Officer in Yashoda Hospital, one of UP's biggest multi-specialty Hospitals.
Another doctor, Dr Shiv Kumar is an employee of the Haryana government health department. He is currently attached to the Civil Hospital at Jind in Haryana.
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