Imagine walking into a clinic in your neighbourhood.
White coat. Stethoscope. Doctor on the nameplate.
You trust them with your fever, your child, your blood pressure.
Now imagine finding out… they may not have a medical degree at all.
That's exactly the storm brewing in Goregaon right now.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has issued final and ultimate warning notices to two Goregaon clinics.
The order is blunt: immediately cease and desist from practising allopathy.
Why?
Because inspections allegedly found them prescribing modern scientific medicine without valid registration with the Maharashtra Medical Council.
No MMC. No recognised council. No green light.
Dr Tulsidar Kantilal Karpe, Medical Officer of Health for P-East Ward, signed both notices.
Here's the breakdown:
This isn't a polite reminder.
This is the last knock before the police knock.
Dr Karpe was careful with his words.
"We have not yet declared they are bogus doctors," he told The Indian Express.
Documents still need verification. Degrees. Licences. The whole paper trail.
So for now — they're suspended in limbo.
Not cleared. Not condemned. Just… cease and desist.
Mumbai has a quack problem. A serious one.
Just days ago, the Crime Branch raided multiple clinics in Govandi and arrested six people posing as doctors.
Last year, Maharashtra's medical education ministry flagged 55+ cases of fake doctors and promised stricter laws.
One fake "doctor" was even caught working in a Mumbai hospital ICU — for two whole years — before anyone checked his MMC number.
Let that sink in. 🤯
We obsess over big hospital bills, insurance, and AI-powered diagnostics.
Meanwhile, the most basic question goes unasked at the neighbourhood clinic:
Is this person actually a doctor?
The BMC is finally asking it. Loudly.
And if you live in Mumbai, maybe it's time you asked it too — before the next prescription, not after.
That's all for now!
