Two doctors suspended in Cyprus for medical credential fraud

On Wednesday, the Cyprus Medical Association announced that doctors Alevtina Kouzitseva Markou and Victoria Kouzitseva Christodoulou have been suspended from practice for six years. The disciplinary council issued the ruling on June 22 following an investigation into the doctors' credentials. The council determined that the physicians provided inaccurate information when applying for the recognition of a general medicine specialty. They falsely claimed to have completed four years of continuous postgraduate training at the Gomel State Medical University in Belarus. The council concluded that this misrepresentation was a deliberate act rather than a procedural error, undermining the integrity of the medical profession. Although the disciplinary body considered the doctors' previously clean records and personal circumstances as mitigating factors, it deemed the offense sufficiently serious to warrant the six-year suspension. This decision effectively revokes the specialized status they had obtained based on the fraudulent declarations.