CBI conducts searches across country over foreign medical graduates practising without FMGE qualification
As per the rules, a foreign medical graduate must qualify FMGE and screening Test conducted by the National Board of Examination (NBE) in order to get provisional or permanent registration with the National Medical Commission or a state medical council to practise medicine in India.
CBI conducts searches across country over foreign medical graduates practising without FMGE qualification
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted searches at 91 locations across the country in relation with its investigation against several state medical councils and foreign medical graduates who were given permission to practise in India without qualifying a mandatory test, officials said.
"The agency had registered an FIR against 14 state medical councils and 73 foreign medical graduates who were allowed to practise medicine in India without qualifying the mandatory Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE)," they said.
As per the rules, a foreign medical graduate must qualify FMGE and screening Test conducted by the National Board of Examination (NBE) in order to get provisional or permanent registration with the National Medical Commission or a state medical council to practise medicine in India.
"NBE sends its results to candidates as well as councils. When fake eligibility certificates were produced by these candidates, medical councils could have verified it from the results directly sent to them by NBE," they said.
"The CBI registers case of alleged corruption, criminal conspiracy, forgery and cheating against unidentified officials of state medical councils, the erstwhile Medical Council of India, and 73 foreign medical graduates," the officials said.
"Such fraudulent and fake registration by non-qualified persons will be detrimental to the health and well-being of citizens. It has inter-state ramifications in health sector," a complaint from Union Health Ministry to the CBI said.
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