The phenomenon of suspiciously qualified or unqualified doctors opening shop in some township and attracting unsuspecting patients has become a concerning norm.
Discussions and debate are focused on state capture and its effect on the economy, but there’s another beast eating away at productivity, hurting the economy and undermining our health system. South Africa is open for medical fraud business.
Medical fraud manifests in two ways: bogus doctors in practice and bogus medical certificates issued to rob employers by keeping an employee away from work while earning a salary.
The phenomenon of suspiciously qualified or unqualified doctors opening practices in some townships and attracting unsuspecting patients has become a concerning norm. Just recently a bogus doctor was caught and arrested at his Mpumalanga surgery in front of patients, some of whom he had prescribed highly regulated schedule 4+ drugs.
These bogus doctors – and even dentists and special
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