Kerala: Man impersonating as Govt doctor arrested for treating patients for 10 days

In suspicion, other doctors at the hospital caught his act of posing as a fake doctor and altering the lab test and called the police immediately.

After the police arrested the accused, it was revealed in an initial investigation that Nikhil also defrauded Rinu's brother in the same way and took an amount of Rs 80,000 from him.

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Upon being viral of the incident, Health Minister Veena George took strict action by directing all the government college and hospital authorities to implement entry-point security screening as early as possible. She informed the Director of Medical Education to look after the matter and instructed all the medical colleges to take strict action to prevent these incidents in future.

As per a media report in TH, the doctors and hospital staff should be required to show their identification cards and documents before entering hospital premises, said the minister.

The Minister urged the patients and hospital staff to report any suspicious incident at the hospital and that action would be taken against it. She also ordered the hospital authorities to have only one bystander for a patient and family members will need entry passes to visit the patient.

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