EMMA DALY

Vogosca
A gentle but relentless snow swathed the dreary suburb of Vogosca in an eerie calm as three dozen Bosnian federal policemen arrived yesterday morning to patrol the streets, deserted by thousands of Serbs in a panicky exodus.Flames burst through the scorched roof of a block of flats torched by those departing, an act of spite intended to showtheir feelings about the hand-over of Vogosca to the Muslim-Croat Federation. A few Serbs, mostly elderly people, women and children, watched from a bus as the enemy arrived an hour after dawn. “Women still suffer from a stereotypical portrayal and a trivialisation of their interests,” she said.. A spokesman for Ford said management considered it”entirely inappropriate”.Davey Hall, president of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union, which covers thousands of Ford workers, said: “Using unclothed women to sell cars is insulting to the workers who make them and customers who buy them.”A spokeswoman for the Equal Opportunities Commission said there should be action to prevent the exploitation of women by the media. A fresh edition of the paper with a more “appropriate” picture was then produced.The idea for the advertisement apparently came from the dealer, but was approved not only by its own advertising agency, but by Ford News. BARRIE CLEMENT

Labour Editor
The appearance of a woman’s bottom in an advertisement in the journal Ford News has caused the motor group fresh embarrassment in the wake of allegations over racism.The company scrapped all 40,000 copies of its in-house journal after a manager saw an advertisement placed by a Ford dealer which included a provocative picture of a semi-naked woman.Below the name of the advertiser, Hancock Ford of Horsham, West Sussex, appeared the risque legend: “Is the bottom line as important to you as it is to us?” It recommended that “for expert advice on all figures” – presumably the amount to be paid for a Ford – the reader should ring the dealer.The row comes within days of a news that the company had published an advertising brochure in which the faces of black workers had been erased in favour of white ones.A manager “hit the roof” when he saw the Ford News picture and immediately ordered that distribution of the journal should cease and that all those in circulation should be withdrawn. Successfully held down junior post in geriatrics but exposed when he took a job in accident and emergency, and consultants became alarmed at his treatment and decisions Jailed for three years..

Exposed by consultant who undertook two-person ward rounds and spotted gaps in his knowledge. Arrested, age 32, and jailed for 18 months.Case E:Trained paramedic produced US medical degrees and references. Two-year imprisonment after four years’ medical work.Case D:Failed medical student from Sri Lanka who gained hospital post as dermatologist. Deported.Case C:A former cadet nurse with one term’s experience at medical school, worked his way up to a senior registrar post in anaesthetics on the back of a bogus 1970 Australian medical school qualification Police investigation of an insurance fraud exposed him.

Jailed for five years in his early 60s.Case B:Produced a medical degree certificate in 1967 from Kabul University – in fact he had failed – and worked as a locum doctor and then a casualty officer Anonymous caller alerted the GMC after four years Arrested, age 39, as he re-entered Britain after a holiday. Worked as a GP for almost 30 years until a member of his family spilled the beans. But the other three were exposed by bureaucratic checks unrelated to medicine – one whose immigration status was queried when returning from abroad, one who was exposed by a family member and one who made unusual insurance claims, the subsequent investigation exposing his medical qualifications as bogus.The fake doctors’ casebookCase A:Arrived in Britain in 1961 with a medical degree and apparent hospital reference from Pakistan Was in fact an unqualified chemist. But “the line between sensible checks and more widespread scepticism placing the majority of new doctors under suspicion, is very narrow”.The study highlights five cases, two of whom were exposed because of medical mistakes. But the study says it admits “one hundred per cent security is almost impossible”. Candidates for registration have to produce original certificates, not photocopies, and hospitals should check with medical schools overseas if an applicant appears particularly implausible.