CBI bursts doctors’ racket of practising using fake FMG certificate

Central Bureau of Investigation has conducted searches on Thursday in different states and Union Territories in a case related to alleged irregularities in the registration of foreign medical graduates with medical councils on fake certificates. The agency said, the searches were conducted at around 91 locations, at the premises of certain Medical Councils as well as Foreign Medical Graduates. This led to the recovery of several incriminating documents, including fake Pass Certificates from the Foreign Medical Graduates Examination. So far, 73 foreign medical graduates, possessing fake qualifying certificates of Foreign Medical Graduates Examination (FMGE), conducted by National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS), have been identified by the CBI. They had either failed or did not appear, but still managed to get registration from medical councils of 13 States, that has entitled them to practise medicine in the country, said the CBI.
CBI had registered a case on the 21st of this month against unknown public servants of State Medical Councils and Medical Councils of India. It has been alleged that as many as 73 Foreign Medical Graduates, who failed to qualify the mandatory qualifying examination managed to get themselves registered with Medical Councils in several states. It was further alleged that registration on such fake certificates enabled the candidates to practice or to secure jobs with hospitals across the country.The State medical councils under the CBI scanner include those from Bihar, UP, Punjab, Maharastra, Rajasthan, Assam, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, J&K and Chhattisgarh. The FIR also lists names of tainted doctors, including two from Tamil Nadu, said the CBI.