Another registration scam unearthed in PMDC

ISLAMABAD: Another scam regarding registration of fake doctors has surfaced in the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC).

An official of the PMDC on the condition of anonymity told Dawn that eight individuals who claimed that they completed their MBBS and BDS degrees from abroad were registered with the PMDC without checking their passports, entry and exit records.

Under the rules of the PMDC, it is mandatory to check the travel records of such graduates to confirm if they had remained abroad during the time they completed their graduation.

The official said an inquiry committee formed in 2013 had been working in PMDC to check all the record of the council and find out if any doctor was registered in violation of the rules.

“During the inquiry, it emerged that eight doctors were registered with the PMDC who even did not submit the required record to show if they had gone out of the country during the time they claimed to have completed their graduation,” he said.

When contacted, PMDC Registrar Dr Amjad Mehmood confirmed that eight persons had been detected who claimed to have obtained degrees from abroad but got themselves registered with the PMDC without submitting the proofs of their degrees.

“These doctors were registered with the PMDC without obtaining the copies of their passports, entry and exit record,” he said.

The inquiry committee has been instructed to prepare a complete report of these fake doctors and lodge cases against them with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), he said.

Another official of the PMDC said a number of cases regarding the registration of fake doctors had been unearthed during the last few years.

“Last week, the FIA arrested four former officials of the PMDC for registering foreign graduates before they cleared the National Examination Board (NEB) exam,” he said.

Medical students who completed their graduation from countries in which English is not the official language have to clear the NEB test conducted by the PMDC.

“As many as 63 graduates just paid the Rs11,000 examination fee and got the registration certificates without attempting the exam. Moreover, there were also graduates who failed to clear the test despite making more than one attempts till 2010 but suddenly got the certificates.

The certificates claimed that the graduates had cleared the exam in 2007,” the official added.

Published in Dawn, May 14th, 2014.

Another scam ?
Looks like something is fishy going around in PMDC. They've made a committee earlier in 2013 to report and respond in case of fake registration etc etc ?
But where are the reports ? What are the names of PMDC officials reported and arrested in the case ?
Its been over a year since the committee is formed, but how many cases are reported along with complete data ?

Don't know if they reported or not. There is a whole pmdc mafia corrupting the pmdc. It's not easy to eradicate them.
There isn't mentioning of names of officials arrested by FIA in news, May be they would be released later.