The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will conduct raids at the offices of medical councils in 91 locations across 18 states. The case is against medical councils who registered foreign medical graduates who lacked the necessary qualifications to practise medicine in India.
The investigation was launched by CBI against 73 foreign medical graduates and 14 state medical councils who were permitted to practise medicine in India without passing the required Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE).
The National Board of Examination informed the Ministry of Health that 73 such medical graduates who completed their MBBS in foreign nations like Russia, Ukraine, China and Nigeria between 2011 and 2012 did not pass its examination but still received registration from various state medical councils.
“Such fraudulent and fake registration by non-qualified persons will be detrimental to the health and well-being of citizens. It has inter-state ramifications in the health sector,” a complaint from the Union Health Ministry to the CBI had said.