doctors facing charges
TNN | Aug 4, 2017, 11:45 PM IST
Indore: After the Medical Council of India (MCI) released orders to suspend eight senior doctors of MY Hospital over allegations of unethical drug trials, their fate now lies with MCI's state unit.
The doctors in question have decided to approach the high court seeking a stay against the suspension and are only waiting for the lawyers' strike to come to an end.
Simultaneously, MGM Medical College is looking into other options in case the state body of MCI suspends the doctors.
While Dr VS Pal holds the post of superintendent of MY Hospital, Dr Hemant Jain is superintendent of Chacha Nehru Children Hospital. Dr Anil Bharani and Dr Asheesh Patel are professor and assistant professor respectively in the Medicine Department.
Dr Anil Bharani said, "I only came to know about this information through newspapers and no copy from MCI has reached to me. If I do receive it, I will think about going to court."
Apart from Dr Pal serving as superintendent of Government Mental Hospital, Dr Ujjav Sardesai, Dr Ajay Paliwal and Dr Pali Rastogi are from the psychiatry department. Dr Ram Ghulam Razdan was recently removed from the post of superintendent of Government Mental Hospital after his name surfaced for allegedly giving 'wrong' information to the media about the deaths at MYH due to an alleged shortage of oxygen reported a month ago.
Dr VS Pal said, "I did not receive any official information regarding any action of suspension from MCI. When I receive it, I will decide my further course of action."
The suspension of these doctors, who also take care of administrative work and teach students, will be a matter of great concern for the college administration.
"MCI has instructed the state body of the medical council and now only the action is left. The decision has not been communicated to us," Dean Dr Sharad Thora told TOI.
He added that in case an order is arrived at, the work of the psychiatry department will be affected the most as almost all the doctors will face a three-month suspension.
"In this case, we will seek directions from the state medical council for alternative arrangements so that patients, students and the administrative works will not be affected," Dr Thora said.