A young woman with no qualifications has spent seven months working as a doctor in the Accident and Emergency Department of the National Health Berga hospital (Barcelona), where she attended to patients.
She fraudulently used the registration number of another doctor as a result of which she was able to be hired by the hospital despite having no medical training.
“She asked a lot of questions and she was very smart” said one of her colleagues, “so she was able to practice as if she were a doctor without raising suspicions.”
She was also helped by the fact that she never had to attend a serious case and that since she was an intern she always had an experienced doctor covering her, according to the protocol.”
The alarm that something was wrong was raised by an external company. The fake doctor sent the resumé to a private health company. When she failed to attach evidence of her medical degree, they asked for it and when she could not produce is, and they were unable to find her name on the list of qualified doctors, their suspicions were raised. They immediately notified the Berga Hospital.
She was removed from her duties and fired since when the centre filed a complaint with the Mossos (police) for professional intrusion, which in the case of doctors is a crime.
