A DOCTOR has been struck off the medical register permanently for falsifying receipts for bulk medication.
The Medical Council heard five separate cases yesterday against Dr Kwok Leong-shon, with a guilty verdict returned in three.
The most serious case involved three charges of 'making a false instrument' - relating to Dr Kwok's appearance in the Tsuen Wan Magistrate's Court in May, when she was found guilty of signing drugs receipts for the Wah Ning Dispensary while pretending to be a dispensary representative.
Signing those receipts enabled her to obtain 60 boxes of methadone tablets, two bottles of Diazepam, 10 ampoules of Pethidine, 200 boxes of Wellconal tablets and 100 boxes of Physeptone tablets.
The chairman of the Medical Council, Professor Rosie Young, described the case as 'extremely serious' and hence Dr Kwok had been removed from the register permanently.
'The profession regards this as a very serious offence. She falsified somebody's authority to supply drugs,' Professor Young said.