SINGAPORE, June 30 -- A doctor in Singapore has pleaded guilty to forging medical certificates in a bid to offer aesthetic treatments at his clinic without having the required qualifications.

Bernard Tan Wen Sheng admitted to using his wife's certificates as templates to create four forged documents, two of which he used to falsely claim competency in procedures such as chemical peels and intense pulsed light (IPL) hair removal, according to Channel News Asia.

Dr Tan submitted the altered certificates to the Ministry of Health (MOH) in February 2023 as part of the licence application process for Bay Aesthetics Clinic at Marina Bay Link Mall.

He had not attended two of the workshops and had lost the original certificates for the other t...