Service affected after the arrest of ‘fake doctors’
Service affected after the arrest of ‘fake doctors’
The intermediate toppers’ scam of Bihar has cascaded beyond the international border to cast a shadow on the neighbouring Himalayan republic of Nepal.
The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal on Friday arrested 15 doctors, nine of them from Birgunj, bordering Raxaul in East Champaran, on the charge of pursuing MBBS course using forged intermediate examination certificates procured from Bihar.
The arrested doctors, including three from Biratnagar and two from Chitwan, both in Nepal, were working in various hospitals as well as doing private practice after obtaining MBBS degrees from colleges in Nepal and China.
After the Bihar intermediate scam surfaced, the Nepal government initiated an inquiry into matriculation and Class 12 certificates issued from Bihar to people of border towns in India and Nepal. “We found many certificates to be fake,” a Nepal government official said.
Those arrested included Dr Saroj Singh, Dr Kush Raj Giri, Dr Panna Lal Patel (all posted at state owned-Birgunj Narayani hospital), Dr Rahullah of National Medical College and Hospital, Birgunj, and leading private practitioners Dr Arun Kumar and Dr Binod Shan.
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