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Clinic raided for hiring unqualified doc

THE Selangor Health Department “raided” a clinic at the Sultan Sulaiman business centre in Port Klang for allegedly hiring an unqualified foreign doctor, China Press reported.

The 24-hour clinic was also supposedly involved in selling medical certificates for RM10 each, it said.

It is learnt that the clinic has an on-going court case in which it had been charged with hiring an unqualified doctor three years ago, the newspaper reported.

According to the newspaper, the department’s medical division assistant chief, Yap Lam Soon, said that during the raid, a 27-year-old Sri Lankan was caught examining a patient at the consultation room.

He said the man, who was paid RM15 per hour, had no working permit or medical qualifications, it said.

He said the man had diagnosed 32 patients in his two days of work at the clinic.

Yap added that they also took some medicine samples from the clinic for examination.