34-Year Fake Doctor Scheme Unravels After Suspicious Prescriptions Trigger Police Arrest
Egyptian authorities arrested a former pharmacy assistant accused of posing as an internal medicine consultant for 34 years using forged documents and a stolen registration number. Patients who received medical treatment and prescriptions across charitable clinics in Dakahlia and Gharbia governorates were exposed to the long-running deception before law enforcement intervened.
Suspicious Prescriptions Lead to Arrest in Dakahlia Medical Clinic
Police arrested the suspect at a medical facility in Damira village, Dakahlia Governorate, after Dr. Raafat Al Zankarani, a professor at Mansoura University’s Faculty of Medicine, became suspicious of prescriptions featuring heavy medication combinations and multiple pain-relieving injections. Al Zankarani cross-checked graduate archives and the Egyptian Medical Syndicate database, revealing that the suspect held no recognized medical degree and was using a registration number belonging to another physician. Following the discovery, a court in Talkha extended the suspect’s detention for 15 days pending investigations into document forgery, impersonating a medical professional, and practising medicine without required licences.
Egyptian Medical Syndicate board member Dr. Ahmed Zahran stated that the suspect relied on his background as a pharmacy assistant and avoided opening a private clinic, choosing instead to move frequently between small charitable medical centres to escape administrative scrutiny since 1992.
