Unregistered doctors arrested
An intelligence-driven operation has led to the arrest of two doctors in the Western Cape who were not registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA), reports IoL.
According to the council, the two unregistered locums were practising in Philippi and Stellenbosch areas.
An operation was conducted by the council along with members of the SAPS Crime Prevention and Crime Intelligence units. In the first incident, Dr Rasheed Mahfouz made his first court appearance on Friday, 17 February.
He was allegedly practising as a locum despite being removed from the HPCSA register in 2015 in terms of Section 42(1)(c) of the Health Professions Act.
Mahfouz is expected back in court tomorrow for his bail hearing. In the second incident, Congolese national Ilunga Nzabadi was allegedly caught practising illegally in Stellenbosch.
He was arrested and taken to Stellenbosch SAPS 'for being in contravention of Section 17(1) of the Health Professions Act,’ said Christopher Tsatsawane, head of division for the HPCSA’s corporate affairs.
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