Bridgetown.
The Barbados Medical Council has struck thirty eight doctors off the medical register.
They are among 50 doctors who have not completed the two-step registration process by the Barbados Medical Council in accordance with Section 18 of the Medical Profession Act 2011-1.
The other 12 doctors indicated they were retiring or would not be in the island.
The figure could rise 80 if 30 doctors who have completed the first stage of the registration process do not pay their yearly registration fees as required by the law.
Chairman of the Medical Council Sir Errol Walrond, told journalists that 464 doctors had qualified to practise by virtue of satisfying the Continuing Profesional Education (CPE) assessment under the new act, by paying their annual professional fees into the registry, and being certified as completing this process by the council.
