{"id":27994,"date":"2026-03-07T10:51:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=27994"},"modified":"2026-03-07T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:53:51","slug":"hpcsa-warns-doctors-over-fraudulent-medical-certificates","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/hpcsa-warns-doctors-over-fraudulent-medical-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"HPCSA warns doctors over fraudulent medical certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div>The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) , says doctors who issue deceitful or untruthful medical certificates will be dealt with harshly.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The comes after Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga&#8217;s warning to witnesses who submit what he called &#8220;useless&#8221; medical certificates&#8221; to avoid appearing before the Madlanga Commission in Pretoria.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The commission probing criminal infiltration and political interference in the country&#8217;s criminal justice system, received at least three medical certificates in recent weeks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0The HPCSA&#8217;s head of Corporate Affairs, \u00a0Priscilla Sekhonyana says health professionals should honour their ethical obligations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23398,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-27994","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The comes after Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga's warning to witnesses who submit what he called \"useless\" medical certificates\".","published_date":"","news_description":"The comes after Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga's warning to witnesses who submit what he called \"useless\" medical certificates\".","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27998,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27994\/revisions\/27998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=27994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}