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  • 15/11/2012 at 11:44 am #11066
    DrAnilDrAnil
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    Medical council to screen doctors to sieve out quacks

    After finding three men practicing medicine with fake degree certificates in less than six months, the state medical council has asked all hospitals, both government and private, to verify the background of doctors who graduated in the last two years before recruiting them.

    The council will also verify the background of all candidates it had registered in the last three years, Tamil Nadu State Medical Council president Dr K Prakasam said. The council has lodged a police complaint against three people who had produced fake degree certificates, and has requested police to crack down on brokers who help candidates procure such certificates, he said. Some of them even managed to register themselves as doctors with the Medical Council of India (MCI) without clearing the screening examination.

    Investigations show these candidates had approached brokers in New Delhi, who managed to register them by bribing MCI secretarial staff. “We have seized the fake degrees and registration certificates. But we are not sure how many more quacks have been ‘legalised’ through fake certificates. We have urged police to investigate,” he said.

    The council has urged hospitals not to recruit doctors who are not registered by the state council. It was found that students producing fake certificates had mostly completed their degrees abroad, particularly in Russia, he said.

    Since 2002, students who graduate from colleges abroad have to appear for a screening test conducted by the National Board of Examinations. Those who clear the test get certificates from the state medical council permitting them to do a year-long internship with a university or a hospital. “We have found students faking both the registration and internship certificates. We have written to the MCI and are awaiting their response,” said a senior official in the state medical council.

    After internship, they are enrolled in the registry, enabling them to start practice. In 2010, 242 students got licences, while 171 got it the next year.

            

    23/12/2012 at 3:34 pm #16268
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    Dental quacks are playing havoc with oral hygiene of rural people in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu with over 80 of them based in various parts of Tuticorin district and about 200 more in other parts.

    According to Dr C Sivakumar, state secretary of the Indian Dental Association (IDA), fake dentists are ruling the roost in the rural pockets, where awareness on oral hygiene is very poor among the people. He said that a meeting to discuss the problems caused by these quacks was held in Tuticorin, on Sunday. There about 160 registered dentists in Tuticorin and they had identified about 80 quacks, who are having full-fledged clinics in the rural pockets.

     

            

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