QLD: Overseas doctors employed with fake medical degrees

AAP General News (Australia)
04-26-2007
QLD: Overseas doctors employed with fake medical degrees

Overseas-trained medical professionals employed in Queensland used false medical certificates
to get their jobs.

A Russian nurse used an online medical degree from the Caribbean .. while a Chinese
woman used documents indicating she'd have been just 14 when she entered a Shanghai medical
college.

The Australian newspaper reports evidence obtained by Chief Health Officer JEANETTE
YOUNG .. in an investigation into the hiring of three junior doctors .. or interns ..

at Cairns Base Hospital has appalled officials and the Queensland Health Minister .. STEPHEN
ROBERTSON.

One of the three recruits couldn't speak English and was unable to communicate with
anyone on the hospital wards.

The controversy comes as Queensland prosecutors liaise with counterparts in the US
to extradite JAYANT PATEL .. the surgeon known as Doctor Death .. who's been blamed for
contributing to at least 17 deaths at Bundaberg Base Hospital.

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