October 10, 2004

The Times of India

MEDICAL BODY DETECTS 200 FAKE DOCS

BYLINE: Ch Sushil Rao

HYDERABAD: The Medical Council of India (MCI) has detected 200 doctors with
false medical degrees or Intermediate marks memos in the last four years.

At least 15 of these fake doctors, each sporting the 'MD Physician' tag, are
from Andhra Pradesh. The MCI has filed FIRs against them for submitting fake
degree certificates.

To register with the MCI, doctors have to submit their certificates for
verification.

Though the council gives provisional registration, it sends the certificates
for verification to the authorities concerned. In many cases, the fake medical
degrees have been secured from Russia and other East European countries.

Verification of these certificates was carried out with the help of Indian
embassies in those countries. In some of these cases, the medical degree is
genuine but the Intermediate marks memo is fake.

Foreign medical degree holders are required to take a qualification test
conducted by the MCI.

"Those who have fake degrees naturally fail the test," MCI member Amrith Lal
Waghray told The Times of India.

For example, one Kunche Srivijay had produced a 'MD physician' degree from
Kiev but when the certificate was sent to the institute for verification, it
turned out to be fake.

In quite a few cases, the Intermediate marks memos supposedly issued by the
Board of Intermediate Education, Hyderabad, were found to have been forged on
verification.

Similarly, marksheets issued by the equivalent board authorities in Uttar
Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, West Bengal, and Rajasthan were also found
to be fake.

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