Unregistered FMG Fail doctor held after patient dies from injection for stomach pain in Coimbatore
Doctor arrested
Coimbatore: In a shocking case of medical malpractice, a foreign-educated doctor who had not registered with the Tamil Nadu Medical Council and was found using the prescription slip of another registered doctor has been recently apprehended for allegedly treating a 21-year-old patient who died after receiving an injection for stomach pain at his private clinic in the Sultanpet area.
The unregistered medical practitioner was caught red-handed in an inquiry by a team of health department staff led by the Joint Director of Health Department in Coimbatore NN Rajasekaran on Sunday which revealed that the doctor completed his MBBS from Georgia in 2022 but did not clear the the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) mandated by the Medical Council of India. As a result, he failed to register with the Tamil Nadu Medical Council for practising medicine.
However, the doctor had been practicing medicine in the clinic which was also running without a valid license and treated several patients over the years which led to the recent death of one such patient in the Sultanpet area.
As per DT Next news report, the incident took place after the patient, a driver from Ambedkar Nagar in Sultanpet was brought to the medical centre with complaints of stomach pain on Saturday. Following this, the accused unregistered medical practitioner checked the patient accompanied by his aunt and administered him an injection for the stomach pain.
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