KOLKATA: A renewed demand for dissolving the West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) has surfaced after Association of Private Hospital and Nursing Home (APHNH) alleged the council of providing license to doctors who obtained fake degrees. Various doctor oganisations have also demanded a thorough probe into the issue.One of them is allegedly working as a gynaecologist in Burdwan and the as a general surgeon in North 24 Parganas.“We have already lodged a compliant with the health minister about these two persons with documents that we could collect and which suggest that they have obtained the registration number by providing fake medical degrees certificates from other states. We feel that there is a bigger scam of fake doctors operating where WBMC has provided registration without proper verification,” said Rajiv Pandey, secretary APHNH.During the RG Kar movement various doctor organisations have alleged that WBMC was the seat or corruption and irregularities and had demanded the dissolution of the body and conduct fresh elections. The election procedure to the present WBMC body itself was mired in controversy with allegations of rigging. The issue was now pending in the couty.“We demand a judicial enquiry into this allegation for a comprehensive probe in the interest of patient safety, transparency and integrity of the profession,” said Sajal Biswas, general secretary Service Doctors Forum.On Thursday some doctors from the APHNH even staged a protest in front of the WBMC’s office in Salt Lake demanding the resignation of members including Sudipto Roy who is the president of the council.
