‘Guinness Record Holder’ doctor arrested in Bengal

Howrah police has arrested a bogus doctor who claimed to be a member of the Sub-Committee for Medicine/ Physiology at Nobel Foundation, Freelance Researcher cum Advisor at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Research Report Reviewer at American College of Physicians (ACP), Joint Secretary, Howrah Medical Club, as well as an alumnus of Royal College of Physicians, London, American Public Health Association at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Stanford University School of Medicine: Center of Excellence, University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School, School of Clinical Medicine at University of Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Calcutta National Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata.

Subhendu Bhattacharya, known in his locality for his dedication for social service and free treatment to poor was arrested for playing with the lives of thousands of people by practicing medicine on the basis of fake degrees and certificates.

He also claimed to hold a Guinness World Record for being the youngest member of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, and was recently awarded the lifetime achievement award by President Pranab Mukherjee during the 6th Dr Malati Allen Nobel Award in Kolkata.

The fraud came to light after Dr Ayan Bhattacharya (a post-graduate medicine student at the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health in Kolkata) lodged a complaint with the Bantra police station in Howrah, saying that Subhendu was using his medical practice registration number and was running a private nursing home.

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