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wasi siddiqui 
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 Topic: Fake doctors in PakistanPosted: 26 October 2009 at 2:51pm |
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Some 70,000 quacks with bogus medical degrees are said to be endangering lives across the country. But the recent news of a fake doctors� recruitment scam at the District Headquarters Hospital in Rawalpindi raises new concerns about the infiltration of such charlatans into our public healthcare institutions. Several senior health officials have already been arrested for the hiring of at least four people � three of them brothers � whose medical certificates were found to be bogus. One was taken on by the hospital as a neurosurgeon no less. While all those found guilty ought to be prosecuted and punished, more comprehensive preventative measures are also in order. For starters, the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council could ask all public and private hospitals in the Rawalpindi-Islamabad area to send a list of their doctors for verification. The PMDC needs to introduce a multi-tiered checking and monitoring system which should include routine degree verification in all hospitals. Fake doctors are either not registered with the PMDC or hold phoney registration certificates, and as such unqualified doctors can be weeded out without harassing genuine practitioners. Hospitals which fail to verify credentials with the PMDC before hiring new doctors should be appropriately penalised.
Detecting fake doctors requires diligent regulation as well as public awareness and prompt reporting by medical professionals who are suspicious of a colleague�s credentials.
Not many people perhaps know that the PMDC�s website allows the general public to check if their doctors are registered with the council and are thus licensed to practise medicine. The PMDC and the health authorities should encourage the general public, through advertisements and posters, to be involved in exposing fake doctors in this manner. After all it is the public that will benefit most, in terms of safer healthcare, by the eradication of bogus physicians.
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Sign*Reader
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Posted: 26 October 2009 at 7:05pm |
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Anything is possible where a known thief and no real education can get to the presidency, quackery amongst those people should not be a surprise and it is an old profession in most third world...
What the country needs is a complete redo through a revolution... It is all based on the value of human life...just imagine the provincial government is subsidizing the flat breads at @1.25 cents for the starving masses of a province that used to feed the whole subcontinent... getting them to a qualified doctor sounds like a tall order... |
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Kismet Domino: Faith/Courage/Liberty/Abundance/Selfishness/Immorality/Apathy/Bondage or extinction.
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martha
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Posted: 26 October 2009 at 11:19pm |
I completely agree. Tho bogus documents are not restricted to the quacks. One can understand, tho not condone, anyone who has to go to extreme measures to put naan bread in family mouths. There is little or no value on other human life if you are hungry. And the presidency really have answers to give when foreign aid doesn't go to the intended masses. It's all a mess
And we will always wonder on the complexity of human beings, all over the globe. No solutions at present for the people of Pakistan unfortunately.
Edited by martha - 26 October 2009 at 11:56pm |
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some of us are a lot like cement:- all mixed up and permanently set
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martha
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Posted: 26 October 2009 at 11:29pm |
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Not many people perhaps know that the PMDC�s website allows the general public to check if their doctors are registered with the council and are thus licensed to practise medicine. The PMDC and the health authorities should encourage the general public, through advertisements and posters, to be involved in exposing fake doctors in this manner. After all it is the public that will benefit most, in terms of safer healthcare, by the eradication of bogus physicians.
This is laughable. How many even know what a website is yet alone know or have the means to access one? Posters is a good idea. BUt can the authorities really believe the public will grass on their neighbours? That would be a death sentence for many! SO what choice do they have then? A violent death? Or belief in a miraculous cure for ailments, both at the hands of the same bogus doctor whose compassion for others extends to family members only?
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some of us are a lot like cement:- all mixed up and permanently set
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