A recent call for curriculums to create regional medical commissions that would determine the degree of disability of Social Security recipients revealed a near-total use of plagiarized sent in by applicants. Only 60 of all of the submissions passed the test as original work and 98.8% of 5,000 applications were plagiarized.
The Attorney General of the Republic told journalists that there was sufficient evidence of alterations to documents. Social Security expert Arismendi Díaz Santana told reporters that this was not an isolated case. He described the incident as part of a “mafia network” that offers services from pseudo-scientific articles to bulk up a resumé to complete thesis for Masters and Doctoral degrees.
Díaz Santana called for the punishment of the persons who forged documents. He said that this practice constitutes a very lucrative business, which allows people to win coveted positions in residencies, sometimes “without even trying.” He said the country is facing a new case of corruption and impunity, that of medical graduates who are supposedly to be trusted by the public. He called for serious punishments.
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El Nacional
5 August 2019