NEW DELHI – Police in Indian capital have arrested a teenager who posed as a doctor for at least five months at one of the country’s most prestigious medical institutions.
Adnan Khurram, 19, was friends with doctors and medical students at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi, where he was active in hospital politics and posted pictures of himself to his Instagram page – @Dr.Adnan_Khurram – wearing a stethoscope and face mask.
Police, however, maintain Khurram was not enrolled in any medical training, had no qualifications and was receiving no salary from the hospital. He was arrested at the weekend after coming into the hospital to take part in a staff marathon.
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Doctors said they had first become suspicious because Khurram, from Bihar state, seemed to have more free time than most junior doctors, who typically work shifts of up to 20 hours, the Hindustan Times reported.
Khurram has been charged with impersonation and forgery.
A 2016 study by the World Health Organization found that less than 20% of purported doctors in rural India had any medical qualifications. The study found there were about 36 qualified doctors for every 100,000 Indians, compared with 130 in China and 2,710 in the UK.
