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A forged medical degree and a forged American Board certificate submitted to the Dubai Health Authority: the Dh200,000 fine, and the 56 doctors and nurses an earlier audit struck off across the Gulf
Dubai licenses health practitioners through the Dubai Health Authority, which verifies qualifications before issuing a licence and has prosecuted people whose qualifications were not what they submitted.
According to Khaleej Times, a Canadian dermatologist was jailed and fined Dh200,000 for practising medicine on a forged medical degree and a forged American Board of Medical Specialties certification, both supplied to the authority when she created a profile in May 2016 to apply for a permit to practise dermatology. Gulf News reported a separate case of a fake doctor jailed over forged medical papers, and Khaleej Times reported a physician jailed for issuing a false medical report, the register being used against a real doctor as well as an impostor.
The larger number comes from an earlier sweep. Emirates 24/7 reported that the Dubai Health Authority caught 56 doctors and nurses working in local hospitals and medical centres on forged certificates in a single campaign, dismissed them all, and placed them on a blacklist shared across the Gulf Cooperation Council so that they could not work in any other medical centre in the UAE or the rest of the GCC.
The dermatologist's case is instructive precisely because the forgeries were ambitious: a degree and a specialist board certification, the two documents a licensing body is most certain to verify at source. They were verified, eventually, and the sentence followed. The 56 cases are instructive for the blacklist: one forged certificate in Dubai ended careers in six countries.
Dubai's "universities" with no education permit are recorded elsewhere on this site. For a student, the DHA cases complete the picture. A degree from an institution the licensing authority cannot verify, and a degree that is simply forged, meet the same fate at the same desk, and the desk shares its findings with every neighbour. Ask the school where its graduates are licensed in the Gulf, and check with the authority, not the school.
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