To check the menace of fake doctors, the Joint Director of Health Services of every district is verifying the medical degrees of doctors who are practicing in clinics and hospitals.
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in Gauhati High Court seeking the court’s intervention in checking the menace of fake doctors and quacks in Assam.
Ayush doctors were included to inflate the number. Further, the country does not have accurate data on the number of practicing healthcare professionals.
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GUWAHATI: A man masquerading as a doctor was arrested from Mokalbari tea estate in upper Assam s Dibrugarh district on Thursday.
He was using the registration number of a doctor from Karnataka, identified as Dr Stephen Antony, who has been abroad since 2009. Tea estate sources said the fake doctor, Simon Nag, was working as a medical officer in Mokalbari since 2018.
The forgery was detected by Dr. Abhijit Neog of a Guwahati-based hospital. It was Neog, who established contact with the real Dr Stephen Antony, the original registration number holder, who is now practicing in Singapore. Antony graduated from St. John s Medical College, Bengaluru in 2006 and got his registration from Medical Council of India in 2007.