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Emergency care 'certificates' fraudulent

The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) is again urging prospective students to only study at accredited training institutions. This comes after the council discovered fraudulent emergency care certificates were issued by an unaccredited institution. The Professional Board for Emergency Care recently conducted an impromptu inspection at AMA Training Centre in Limpopo after it came to their attention that a member of the public was issued with a fraudulent Basic Ambulance Assistant (BAA) certificate.

This institution is not accredited with the HPCSA to provide emergency care training and the board acted immediately to mitigate any possible resulting risk from unqualified and unregistered persons treating the patients.

The Regulator has put a number of verification systems in place to ensure a satisfactory level of quality assurance during registration, including a double verification process. The board furthermore issued a stern warning to the public and practitioners who were involved in the issuing of falsified qualifications and who were colluding to register unqualified people, saying the council considered these criminal actions in a very serious light and would not hesitate to report them to the SAPS.

News24.com, 9 October 2013