Fake doctor of pvt hospital jailed; its owner, manager fined Tk 6 lakh

A mobile court last night jailed a fake doctor of a private hospital in Dhaka's Shyamoli area and fined its owner and manager Tk six lakh in total on charge of providing substandard service to patients.

The bogus doctor Saiful Islam, director and so-called OT in-charge of Sebika General Hospital, was given one-year imprisonment and fined Tk two lakh, said Mohammed Mohiuddin Faruqe, a company commander of Rab-2.

The mobile court assisted by Rab-2 also fined hospital owner MM Shakhawat Hossain Tk four lakh and manager Mohibullha Tk two lakh, he said.

It also awarded six months' jail to six brokers each. They used to cheat patients at different nearby government hospitals and trick them into getting admitted to different low quality private hospitals, the official said.

Mohiuddin, also the superintendent of police, said there are around 500 brokers active in different government hospitals, including the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR) and National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases.

Whenever patients arrive in those hospitals from remote villages, the brokers convince them to move to different private hospitals saying government hospitals are not good, he added.

In exchange, the brokers get Tk 5,000 to 50,000 per patient depending on their condition, he said.