PETALING JAYA: A Malaysian woman who failed her medical studies has been fined and sentenced to two years’ community service after she lied her way into working as a medical intern at a hospital in Sydney, Australia.
Lee Zhin Sin, 27, was described as being “deceitful and reckless” for deliberately carrying on with “day after day of working shifts under false pretences”.
A failed student of the University of New South Wales, she was fined A$10,000 and ordered to pay the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) A$3,400 in professional costs.
She was also sentenced to two years imprisonment to be served in the community by way of Intensive Corrections Order, media reports said.
Lee apologised for her actions but said she was under a lot of pressure from her family in Malaysia who paid over A$348,000 for her degree, according to news.com.au.
Lee had failed her final examinations but somehow managed to land an internship at the Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in January 2020.
Despite not being qualified for the internship, Lee did 126 shifts before hospital staff realised, after eight months, that something was amiss. She was subsequently sacked.
Lee pleaded guilty in a Sydney court in December and was handed her sentence yesterday.
“There’s a lot of factors that come into it but I apologise and feel really sorry,” she was quoted as saying.
Magistrate Glenn Bartley who handed Lee her sentence said she was “deceitful and reckless” for carrying on “day after day of working shifts under false pretences”.
Bartley said it was deliberate and Lee knew she had misled the hospital and was employed by reason of that deceit. “The degree of risk without qualifications was significant in a public hospital in an imperfect system in the middle of a pandemic,” he said.- FMT
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