No action against doctor who tried to kill her father

Chennai: TIMES NEWS NETWORK





Nearly eight months after the Chennai police chargesheeted a doctor for trying to kill her 82year-old father -a heart patient on medical support in a city hospital ICU -by pulling the plug after getting his thumb impression on a set of papers, the doctor continues to practise medicine because officials of the Tamil Nadu Medical Council have not issued orders debarring her from practising.On Friday , a group of elected members said the disciplinary committee constituted by the Tamil Nadu Medical Council recommended that Coimbatore-based Dr Jayasudha Manoharan be debarred, but the order was pending as the general council wasn't able to meet. “There is a case pending on who should be president of the council. We are 10 members in the council and at least 7 have to approve any business. That has never happened,“ said former president K Prakasam, a member of the general council. In February 2016, Dr Jayasudha's brother Dr R Jayaprakash lodged a complaint saying she tried to kill their father Dr E Rajagopal.
He also submitted CCTV footage showing her visiting Dr Rajagopal in Dr Jayaprakash's Aditya Hospital in Kilpauk, Chennai, removing a line delivering life-saving medicines through a vein in the neck.
“There are three more cases for which action is pending,“ he said. The term of the council ends in June. The committee has not met to set the ball rolling for the next election to be conducted by May .