Rampant fraud at medical schools leaves Indian healthcare in crisis
MEDICAL MAYHEM: India has been rocked by a series of recent medical scandals. These women underwent sterilization surgery last November at a government-run camp where a doctor operated on 83 patients in less than three hours; at least a dozen died. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee
By Andrew MacAskill, Steve Stecklow and Sanjeev Miglani-Filed June 16, 2015
Patients pretending they are sick and doctors posing as faculty members are routine. The ramifications of India’s broken medical-education system are being felt beyond the country’s borders.
MUZAFFARNAGAR, India – Last December, Dilshad Chaudhry travelled with about 100 of his fellow villagers by bus to a local Indian medical-school hospital. They’d been told that foreign doctors were coming to tour the facility, and check-ups would be free.
