In an initiative that is a first of its kind, the PMC health department has been carrying out a survey to crack the whip on bogus medical practitioners in the city.

The Pune Municipal Corporation headquarters in Shivajinagar. File Pic

Till date, the corporation has apprehended seven such bogus doctors. They have drawn up a list of another 10 fake doctors, and are going to take action against them soon.

“After receiving several complaints from the slum pockets, we started a survey in January 2014. Till now, we have scanned documents of 850 medical practitioners.

Of these, we found seven practitioners who had forged documents or were practicing allopathy, while holding certificates for natureopathy or acupuncture,” said Sanjeev Wavre, acting assistant health chief of PMC.

The health department has registered police complaints against all of them under Section 33 of the Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act (MMPA).