Police probe report of bogus doctors

POLICE are investigating official complaints about two bogus doctors treating patients in the Nicosia area. The complaints were made by the Pancyprian Medical Association.

Association Chairman Dr Antonis Vassiliou said two unqualified people were presenting themselves as doctors in Nicosia and treating chronic cancer patients and paraplegics.

“There have indeed been some complaints, and they are being investigated by Nicosia CID,” police spokesman Stelios Neophytou confirmed yesterday.

Vasiliou has not said who exactly these allegedly charlatan medics are, but the Medical Association insists that such impostors are not an unusual occurrence on the island.

The association is currently investigating two clinics in Limassol that allegedly allowed unlicensed foreign doctors to use their premises.

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