Remember general practitioner Jipson Quah, the doctor who was in cahoots with Iris Koh, and charged in court earlier this year for making false representations about COVID-19 vaccination information to the Ministry of Health (MOH)?
Well, new details about allegations that were levelled against him by the MOH were revealed on Monday (28 Mar).
The statement was officially made by an interim orders committee appointed by the Singapore Medical Council (SMC).
The List of Misdeeds
As months-long investigation would come to show, Quah has done a number of things.
For one, there are accusations that the suspended doctor had injected his patients with a saline solution (mixture of salt and water) instead of a COVID-19 vaccine.
It was followed by Quah uploading fake vaccination statues for these patients to the MOH’s National Immunisation Registry, while grossly overcharging his patients for his fake vaccinations.
On 23 Jan, SMC received a complaint from MOH about Quah, purportedly saying that he had uploaded faulty COVID-19 Pre-Testing results (PET) on the MOH’s Patient Risk Profile Portal.
Quah is also charged with creating a fake patient account and uploading false COVID-19 antigen rapid test (ART) results to the MOH’s portal for an unvaccinated individual.
He reportedly gave the patient an exemption letter, which allowed the person to escape the binding vaccination-differentiated measures.
Thus far, the only named patient in the court documents, of whom he gave the saline injections instead of the Sinopharm vaccine, is Mehrajunnisha.
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The Consequences of His Actions
In the written complaint, MOH stated that Quah’s action could have caused public consequences, and he had failed to maintain the highest standards of moral integrity and intellectual honesty despite being a medical professional.
For the same reason, MOH sought a resolution as to whether Quah’s medical licence should be suspended.
Although investigations are still ongoing, Quah’s medical registration has been suspended from 23 March, which is set to last for 18 months, or until the disciplinary proceedings have concluded.
The four clinics owned or managed by Quah were also issued notices of suspensions and had their approvals to conduct antigen rapid tests for COVID-19 patients revoked.
Besides that, the positions he held, such as the part-time laboratory directory at the clinical diagnostic labs of Diagnostic Development Hub, and Director of Thermo Fisher Scientific, which owns a biomedical company, were also suspended.
Previous Happenings
In case you’re not caught up with how Jipson Quah initially landed himself in this mess, here’s a summary video for you.
Quah had been arrested on 21 January, alongside his assistant, Thomas Chua, and the founder of anti-vaccine group Healing the Divide, Iris Koh.
He was first charged with submitting false vaccination data, though it was later worsened to making false representations about COVID-19 vaccinations to the health authorities.
Preliminary investigations by the police showed that Koh had referred as many as 20 clients to Quah and Chua.
Although Quah and Chua were detained in police custody under non-bailable offences, they managed to plead the court to grant them bail, though at a hefty sum of $20,000 and $14,000 respectively.
They insisted that they were just the “middleman” carrying out Koh’s orders, merely cogs in the system of abetting Koh in assisting unvaccinated individuals circumvent the vaccination-differentiated safety measures, while Koh also insists that she’s innocent and merely acted as the middleman in referring clients to them and had no hand in their misdemeanours.
The truth behind the conflicting testimonies isn’t out yet.
But it can definitely be said that both parties benefited in their own ways.
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