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At the end of October 2025, Dr. Huidi Tchero, an orthopedic surgeon at Louis-Constant Fleming Hospital in Saint Martin since 2013, was suspended by the Regional Health Agency. He was suspected of having practiced medicine for years with a fake degree. On November 24, 2025, after the Basse-Terre public prosecutor's office opened an investigation, a ministerial order prohibiting him from practicing medicine in France was issued. This same order was suspended on February 11 by a decision of the Saint-Martin Administrative Court.
The administrative court's summary judgment states that the Ministry of Health did not produce any documents to support its decision. Consequently, the arguments put forward by Dr. Tchero were heard by the judges. The order prohibiting him from practicing in France was based solely on a letter from the dean of Gamal Abdel Nasser University in Conakry, dated September 16, 2025, stating that the applicant's medical degree was authentic. On the other hand, his specialized studies diploma (DES) in general surgery, with a focus on orthopedics and traumatology, is a forgery. Our colleagues at La 1ère point out that Dr. Tchero, in order to obtain authorization on February 22, 2023, to practice medicine in France in the specialty of "orthopedic surgery and traumatology," "successfully passed the anonymous knowledge verification tests organized by the profession."
Furthermore, the judge emphasized that "the competence of the applicant," i.e., Dr. Tchero, was unanimously recognized by three experts dispatched by the Antilles-Guyane Interregional Council of the Order of Physicians.
