KATHMANDU, Jan 30: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police on Monday arrested as many as 17 foreign doctors and three hospital entrepreneurs from various hospitals in the capital on charge of working without permission.
Acting on a tip-off by the Nepal Medical Council (NMC), the illegitimate medical practitioners were taken under custody, according to CIB chief DIG Pushkar Karki. As per the existing laws of Nepal, foreign doctors have to mandatorily take permission from the NMC to work here.
17 foreign doctors without NMC permission arrested
Police arrested 17 doctors and three hospital entrepreneurs after conducting raids in five different hospitals in Kathmandu. The three hospital entrepreneurs were later released. The doctors arrested hail from the USA and Australia.
CIB officials said that they are planning to conduct raids in other hospitals based in the capital and beyond to ensure that those practicing medicine have received due permission from the regulatory body of doctors in Nepal. CIB said it has lately focused its operation on issues concerning consumers rights and public interest.
