FMGE Fake Registration Scam. CBI finds 20 fake FMGE certificates from Assam Medical Council. Two from Haryana and Maharashtra Medical Council.

FMGE Fake Registration Scam. CBI finds 20 fake FMGE certificates from Assam Medical Council. Two from Haryana and Maharashtra Medical Council.

31.12.2022

Medical Dialogues

A day after day CBI conducted a search operation at 91 locations across the country in connection with allegations of irregularities in the registration of fmg graduates with State Medical councils who were allowed to practice in India without qualifying for a mandatory test the agency has found 28 more graduates who had obtained fake certificates from various State Medical Council.

Of the same 20 graduates have been caught in Assam 2 in Maharashtra and 6 in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

While conductin g the search in Assam, the CBA have discovered several incriminating documents including fack certificates of the FMGE from the houses of the 20 graduates having an Assam Medical Council seal. Similarly 2 Medicos were caught from Maharashtra.

Six doctors from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have also come under this scanner for allegedly possessing fack foreign medical graduate examination documents.

This comes after the agency registered an FIR against 14 State medical councils and 73 foreign medical graduates who were allowed to practice medicine in India without qualifying for the mandatory FM GE. The CBI has conducted searches at around 91 locations including Delhi Chandigarh Amritsar Gurdaspur Bhatinda Khanna Karnal Sawai Madhopur Narwana Hamirpur Shimla Jammu, Srinagar Dehradun Ghaziabad Guwahati Tezpur Imphal Sikkim Rajpur Patna Munger Mumbai Jaipur Sikar Vijayawada Warangal Tirunelveli Madurai Bhopal Nagpur Buldana Pine Jalgaon Dharbhanga Champaran Begusarai Bokaro Vizag Hajipur Vaishali Nalanda etc at the premises of certain medical councils as well as foreign medical graduates which led to the recovery of several incriminating documents including fack past certificates of FMG examination CBI stated.

Following the raids 20 facts certificates carrying the seal of Assam Medical Council were recovered while two such certificate were carrying the seal of Haryana Medical Council and the Maharashtra Medical Council respectively.

According to norms a FMG qualify must qualify test conducted by the national board of examination in order to get provisional or permanent registration with the National Medical Commission or a State Medical Council to practice medicine in India.

The sources send NBE sends it's result to candidates as well as councils.

The National Board of Examination had intimated The Ministry of Health that 73 such medical graduates who did their MBBS from foreign countries such as Russia Ukraine China and Nigeria during 2011-12 have not qualified its examination and yet got registration from various State Medical councils.

When fake eligibility certificates were produced by these candidates Medical Council could have verified it from the results directly sent to them by NBE

they said

On the other hand the agent has found two more doctors in Vidarbha 1 each in Nagpur and Buldana while conducting their search in Maharashtra both doctors are reported to have procured fack registration certificate from Maharashtra and Haryana Medical Council respectively.

During the investigation the agency found that the doctor from Nagpur failed in FMGE test conducted in India after completing its MD physician course from Kuban State Medical University Russia in 2020 The Live Nagpur reports.

The information was revealed after CBI raided their house as part of the investigation. However in the case of the doctor from Buldhana the failed FMGE after completing his medical course at the Jilin University of China in 2015.

Although many cases have been brought to light so far more are expected to emerge in the future