Physician fined for fake medical report

dubai — An Indian physician, 42, is on trial in the Court of First Instance on the charge of forging and issuing a medical report falsely stating that an auditor suffered severe back pain. The latter then used the fake report and presented it to a public prosecution member during an investigation.

The physician is also accused of wrongly issuing a medical prescription for drugs, hence not complying with the regulations set by the Ministry of Health. The case dates back to April 12, last year, and was reported at Al Barsha Police Station.

The auditor, 26, and manager,

Dh20,000 was fined by the DHA as an administrative measure

32, who are brothers from Egypt, are accused together with the physician of misleading justice after submitting to the prosecution a fake report related to a criminal case.

A letter from the Dubai Health Authority stated that the clinic, which issued the report, did not comply with the conditions and regulations on opening of medical files. The second accused did not have a file at the clinic given the fact that the doctor issued him a report stating that he suffered from back pain and for which he prescribed him two types of pain killers.

According to the same letter, the main accused committed another offence when he prescribed medicines without first clinically examining the patient. In another letter by the DHA, it was revealed the first defendant was fined Dh20,000 as an administrative measure by the committee of medical practices.

During the public prosecution investigation, the physician admitted he issued a medical report, which was not true, and claimed it was because of the request and insistence of the third accused. He also confessed the auditor did not receive treatment at the clinic.

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