2 Doctors suspended for three months for lending names to Unqualified Medical Practitioners

Chennai:  The practice of lending their name boards, prescription pads, and offices to unqualified medical practitioners or "quacks" has made 2 doctors to face stringent action from Tamil Nadu Medical Council in two different cases. The two doctors have been suspended for a period of three months each as disciplinary action from the council

The state medical council has issued show cause notices to a number of doctors involved in lending names to the unqualified and unrecognized degree holders.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported about the two cases, where one doctor was found lending his prescription pads to a quack, while another, a radiologist, was found permitting a homoeopath to conduct ultrasounds in his absence.  Both were caught by theTenkasi joint director Dr P K Elangovan who had forwarded the complaint to the council

One case concerned radiologist Dr Kulandaivelu, working at Suham Scan centre. In his complaint to the council, the Dr Elangovan alleged that the radiologist was allowing a homoeopathy practitioner to do ultrasounds in his absence, while all the reports were to the state health department were sent in the radiologist’s name, the homoeopath was performing the said ultrasounds and signing the reports in her name. Several other violations of the PC-PNDT Act were also found the centre was raided by joint director Dr Elangovan.