NDTV's hidden camera expose proves that doctors blatantly violate guidelines in exchange for kickbacks from pharma firms.
A doctor in Delhi has been arrested after he was caught on camera in an NDTV investigation that exposed doctors accepting bribes in exchange for pushing expensive and often unnecessary drugs on patients. (
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Dr JN Saxena, a general practitioner, was filmed on hidden camera accepting Rs 5,000 from the NDTV team which posed as representatives of a pharmaceutical firm. The police today said that he is not a doctor at all - it alleges his degrees and certificates are fake. (
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The expose showed two other doctors demanding a digital camera worth Rs 1.5 lakh and an iPad mini. Their licenses have been suspended today by the Medical Council of India (MCI) - the country's medical watchdog - which reviewed the NDTV expose. (
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"During the course of the enquiry, we asked doctors to produce papers and then we found this... all these are fake degrees and this is absolutely illegal and thus, we have handed him over to the cops," said Dr Ajay Kumar of the Ethics Committee of the medical council.
The probe report will have to be submitted within 120 days, the council added.