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A 2024 house-arrest sentence, 250 syringes and 110 vials in a Villa Crespo home: the Buenos Aires false doctor who kept treating patients while serving his ban
Argentina records its licensed health professionals in SISA, the national health-information system, and that register is the first thing a hospital, patient or prosecutor consults when someone's right to treat is in doubt. A case reported from Buenos Aires on 23 December 2025 shows how far a person can go without ever appearing in it, even after a court had convicted him and ordered him to stop.
According to El Esquiú, the man had been convicted in 2024 of the illegal practice of medicine and sentenced to one year of house arrest. Infobae reported that the sentence barred him from any medical practice, and both outlets said his record of unauthorised practice went back more than twelve years. He went on receiving patients at his home at Batalla del Pari 600 in Villa Crespo, offering aesthetic treatments, so-called regenerative medicine and invasive procedures. He advertised on social media, Infobae reported, mainly in the Belgrano district, and was not registered in SISA.
The case was reopened by a malpractice complaint received in November, according to Infobae, which said the División Delitos contra la Salud y la Seguridad Personal of the Policía de la Ciudad used undercover work before the raid. Infobae reported that the Unidad Fiscal Norte ordered his immediate detention and that Juzgado Nacional en lo Criminal y Correccional 24, under Judge Juan Manuel Neumann, authorised the search. Infobae listed what police found: 250 syringes, 150 needles, 110 vials and ampoules of medication, several of them expired, anaesthetics, hormones, vitamins, unlabelled preparations, six medical devices, two stamps, handwritten patient records, three phones and four computers. El Esquiú, which also mentioned steroids, put the syringes at more than 250. Police sealed the premises, and both outlets reported that he was taken to an alcaidía, a police holding facility, at the disposal of the judge.
The mechanism is simple. A ban on practising depends on someone noticing the breach, and aesthetic medicine sold through a social media advert and delivered at a private address passes no clinic, pharmacy or insurer that would look up a registration. The expired ampoules and unlabelled preparations point to a second failure: the products were outside any supply control. It took a patient harmed enough to complain to bring the authorities back.
For a student or family considering medicine in Argentina, the lesson is to check the register before accepting any injection, especially one marketed on social media or given at a home address. A previous conviction does not stop someone reopening a practice, so a confident manner and a stock of supplies prove nothing. Buenos Aires has produced a separate case of consulting rooms run on fake UBA diplomas and licence numbers, recorded elsewhere on this site.
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