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Masala salesman posed as surgeon ran clinic with fake degree for 4 yrs; held in Mumbai

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Updated on: 13 January,2022 06:08 PM IST  |  Mumbai
Diwakar Sharma | diwakar.sharma@mid-day.com

Sonawane, who was a salesman in a spice manufacturing company, used a fake orthopaedic degree from Baroda Medical College and the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) registration number of another doctor

Masala salesman posed as surgeon ran clinic with fake degree for 4 yrs; held in Mumbai

The fake surgeon Hemant Patil alias Hemant Sonawane. Pic/ Hanif Patel

A 51-year-old conman was arrested by the Vasai police on Wednesday. The fake ortho-surgeon Hemant Patil alias Hemant Sonawane, and former civic medical chief of Vasai-Virar, Sunil Wadkar, arrested last year, allegedly worked together and performed multiple ‘botched surgeries’. Interestingly, Sonawane used to sell spices before performing surgeries. 

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