Members of the newly constituted board at the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission, headed by justice (retd) Biswajit Basu, held its first meeting on Wednesday at the commission’s office in BBD Bag
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Sources in the council said that the intensive audit will have a specific focus on doctors who have obtained a qualification from medical colleges in other states or neighbouring countries. We are now going to launch an audit to identify fake doctors and people responsible for giving them the licence to practice,” said a source at WBMC. The present president has to take onus of this issue as we suspect this scam happened during the regime of Sudipto Roy , Nirmal Majhi etc,” said Kalyan Ashis Mukherjee, who was recently nominated to the WBMC as a govt representative.
Kolkata: The West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) is likely to launch an SIR-like exercise on doctors registered to practise in Bengal. This plan of action comes after an allegation of fake doctors practising in various districts in the state. The council has already revoked the licence of five such fake doctors. “While those who have obtained the registration by submitting fake certificates are committing offence, those in the council who did not run a proper check to verify the documents are equally at fault. “There are many complaints against individuals suspected to be fake doctors. we are investigating to identify the rest While five have already been identified. Roy is the current WBMC president while Maji was a govt nominee to the council’s board. an FIR has also been lodged against council office-bearers including president Sudipto Roy and vice-president Sushanto Roy While an FIR has been lodged against the five fake doctors. Download the TOI App.