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Two kinds of story, both first-person and both checked by our team: scam stories — how it started, what was promised, what it cost — and student stories from verified students already abroad, showing the help they provide and what they wish they'd known. Every story is mapped to the college, city and country it concerns. Cases marked 📰 From the news are compiled by our team from published reporting, with sources linked — not first-person accounts.
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NEET UG is the single gateway to every MBBS seat in India, and 2026 was the year the system was tested twice. According to Medical Dialogues, the 3 May paper w…
📍 Lakhisarai, India
Every year thousands of international medical graduates, many from India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Egypt, sit the General Medical Council's PLAB 2, a clinical exa…
📍 Romford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Hospital Central de Maputo (HCM) is Mozambique's largest referral hospital, and its emergency department, the Banco de Socorros, is where the city's poorest pa…
📍 Maputo, Mozambique
Uganda licenses doctors through the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council (UMDPC) and health facilities through district and national inspection, but…
📍 Kampala, Uganda
Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala is Uganda's largest public hospital, and many of its services are supposed to be free. That is what makes it a tar…
📍 Kampala, Uganda
Kenya's Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC) licenses both the people who treat patients and the premises they work in, and it keeps a public reg…
📍 Nairobi, Kenya
Zimbabwe's nursing schools sit inside its central, provincial and mission hospitals and answer to the Ministry of Health and Child Care. Places are scarce, com…
📍 Harare, Zimbabwe
Entry to nursing training in Zimbabwe rests on one document: an Ordinary Level certificate from the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC). Government h…
📍 Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
In South Africa anyone who treats patients must be on the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) register, and practising without registration is a…
📍 Midrand, South Africa
South Africa's Health Professions Council (HPCSA) registers every doctor, and a hospital may only place an intern who appears on that register. That register, …
📍 Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Uzbekistan has become one of the larger destinations for Indian medical students, with The Pioneer reporting that major Uzbek institutions were taking more tha…
📍 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
The Embassy of India in Tashkent has become the most active regulator-by-advisory for Indian medical students in Uzbekistan, a country that now hosts a large a…
📍 Samarkand State Medical University, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
In Kazakhstan the right to perform a medical procedure rests on a specialist certificate and a licence for medical activity, and the Committee of Medical and P…
📍 Shymkent, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan licenses private clinics and certifies its doctors, but a diploma presented as coming from a Russian university is not easy for a patient, an employ…
📍 Kostanay, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan's compulsory social health insurance fund, known as OSMS, pays private clinics for treating patients, including children, but only when the treating…
📍 Stepnogorsk, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan's universities train large numbers of foreign medical students, and their diplomas are later presented to regulators in India, Pakistan and across A…
📍 Astana, Kazakhstan
In Russia a doctor's diploma is a state document that an employer can check with the issuing university, and medical workers who take up certain posts can qual…
📍 Kurganinsk, Russian Federation
Russia's private cosmetology market is large and, according to patient advocates quoted after this case, poorly supervised: a moratorium on routine inspections…
📍 Moscow, Russian Federation
A directory row says "agent X, overcharge". A story says how the WhatsApp group started, what the "university letter" looked like, when the fee changed, and what finally gave it away. That's what makes the next family pause before they transfer money.
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