Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Dec 29: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday is carrying out raids at 91 locations across 18 states at the premises of medical councils. The case is against medical councils that registered foreign medical graduates who lacked the necessary qualifications to practice medicine in India.
The inquiry was launched by the CBI against 73 foreign medical graduates who were permitted to practice medicine in India without passing the required Foreign Medical Graduate Examination and 14 state medical boards (FMGE).
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The Ministry of Health had been informed by the National Board of Examination that 73 such medical graduates who completed their MBBS in foreign nations like Russia, Ukraine, China, and Nigeria between 2011 and 2012 had failed its examination but had obtained registration from various state medical councils.
According to the officials, the CBI has filed a case alleging corruption, criminal conspiracy, forgery, and cheating against 73 foreign medical graduates as well as unnamed employees of state medical councils and the former Medical Council of India.
