Kerala Medical Council fines doctor Rs 1 lakh, suspends for 3-month for misrepresenting speciality qualifications - Video

Taking strict action against a doctor, the Kerala State Medical Council (Council of Modern Medicine) has decided to remove his name from the State Medical Register for three months for practising with unrecognised and unregistered qualifications.

Apart from removing the name, the Council has also imposed a penalty of Rs 1 lakh on the doctor. It was noted that the doctor had allegedly ignored prior warnings and repeated directives of the council, The Hindu has reported.

The Council received a complaint in 2022 stating that the concerned doctor, a registered medical practitioner in Thiruvananthapuram, was displaying unrecognised and unregistered additional qualifications while in clinical practice.

Consequently, the Ethics Committee of the Modern Medicine Council summoned the doctor on June 14, 2022, for a personal hearing. During the hearing, the doctor mentioned that even though he appeared for the DNB (Medicine) examination after training from 2007 to 2010, the result was not declared, The Hindu has reported.

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Rs 1 lakh fine, 3-month suspension from medical register: Kerala Doctor penalised for misrepresenting speciality qualifications