On May 3 we interviewed Dr. Sergio Guillermo Martinezafter his exposure on social networks of an aberrant fact that had him highly concerned and upset: he had discovered that an impostor was posing as him with his professional registrationand had been attending a sanatorium in the south of Tucumán for some years.
“On March 31, my friend sends me a photo of a medical record signed by a doctor with the same name as me, jokingly he tells me ‘look you have a twin in the South‘. I zoomed in and saw that the license plate number was mine.. That same day I went to Siprosa to file a complaint and to the 1st police station” he told us at the time. However, not willing to wait for justice to come, Martínez went in person to the Concepción clinic where he attended, and confronted him after speaking with the receptionist: “’I am the real doctor Sergio Martínez, tell the one who is using my seal to come and explain to me what is happening here or contact the owner of the clinic‘. That’s when a guy comes out of an office and tells me ‘come on, doctor, I’m going to explain what’s going on. I went in and told him who it was and he told me ‘I’m the one using your license plate’, I told him I was going to have him put in jail, and he told me to please don’t do anything because it was his job… such impudence! I told him ‘if you want to be a doctor, go to study and I just practiced medicine, not in my name’ ”, he confessed to eltucumano.
After making the pertinent complaints both in the prosecutor’s office and in the police station of the capital city of southern Tucuman, the Public Prosecutor’s Office reported that the man who was carrying out the illegal exercise of the medina was finally charged. and the usurpation of identity: “The Public Prosecutor’s Office charged him with the crimes of usurpation of titles and honors and the illegal practice of medicine. This Monday, June 13, a hearing convened by the Public Prosecutor’s Office was held in order to formalize the investigation and file charges against a 39-year-old man, accused of having worked in a clinic in Concepción providing services as a medical therapist, without having a qualifying title and using the professional registration of another doctor, who had denounced this situation last April when, according to what he stated, he discovered by chance that another person was practicing medicine under his name and with his registration number in a sanatorium for patients of the PAMI”, they affirmed.
The case goes ahead the Early Decision Unit of the Courts of Concepción, by prosecutor Miguel Varela. During the hearing, the prosecutor’s assistant, María Emilia López Delgado, proceeded to recount the facts and the evidence that the prosecution has so far.
“According to the accusation made by the MPF, Between May 2019 and April 2022, the accused worked in the aforementioned clinic working in the Health area, more precisely in the Intensive Care areaand that to achieve this purpose he simulated the quality of a health professional, prescribing medical treatment and prescriptions, dispensing medications and signing medical records of patients admitted to said hospital under the identity, name and license plate of a professional from the capitaland that for this he used his seal, receiving a monthly remuneration, ”they confirmed, as Martínez had accused.
“Also, It was added that said activity had been carried out without a license or authorization.using an identity other than their own, compromising public health and public administration with their conduct”.
“Among the evidence available to the prosecution, the official detailed the testimonial statements of relatives of patients treated at the clinic; statements of employees of the same; inspection reports made in the hospital; reports provided by the Faculty of Medicine, which indicate that the defendant is a regular student of the career and that the complainant is a graduate of the same in 2005. Mention was also made of the kidnapping of the defendant’s cell phone, found in a raid carried out days ago at his home, ”they affirmed.
The provisional legal qualification attributed is for the crimes of usurpation of titles and honors and illegal practice of medicine, to the detriment of the Public Administration and Public Health.
Let us remember that after the accusation against the clinic and the man who practiced medicine with a stolen license plate was made public, relatives of patients who died in that health institution painted and vandalized its façade, demanding an immediate response from the justice system against the man who had signed the death certificates of his relatives.