The English stative passive voice sentences can be the simple present, the simple past, the present perfect or the part perfect.
This is a journalistic convention. The writer USES the simple present tense as if he is interviewing the doctor as he writes. It makes the news seem more immediate.
Library Trip: Students went to the library and find at least 10 simple present tense verbs and 10 simple past verbs by reading storybooks.
