The Nationwide Human Rights Fee has initiated a probe into the deaths of seven individuals after they had been allegedly handled by a pretend heart specialist at a missionary hospital in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh, officers mentioned on Sunday.
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A group of the Nationwide Human Rights Fee will camp in Damoh from April 7-9 to conduct an investigation into the matter, NHRC member Priyank Kanoongo mentioned.
Whereas the district chief medical well being officer Dr Mukesh Jain didn’t share the entire variety of victims, he mentioned {that a} probe report into the matter has been despatched to district collector Sudhir Kochar. The probe was carried out by a group of officers from the district well being division.
In response to a grievance lodged by a neighborhood resident with the NHRC, an individual utilizing the title Dr N John Camm, who was working on the Mission Hospital in Damoh, mentioned he was educated in London.
The complainant mentioned the actual title of the particular person is Narendra Vikramaditya Yadav. He misused the title of a well-known heart specialist from the UK, Professor John Camm, to mislead the sufferers and so they died as a consequence of his incorrect therapy, the grievance alleged.
The Mission Hospital authorities couldn’t be contacted on the problem.
Kanoongo mentioned a case of the deaths of seven individuals has come to gentle the place a pretend physician was working on sufferers within the title of the therapy of coronary heart illness.
In response to the grievance, the mentioned missionary hospital is roofed beneath the Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Yojana and therefore authorities cash has additionally been misused. The Nationwide Human Rights Fee has ordered an investigation, he mentioned.
“The investigation team of the National Human Rights Commission constituted on my orders to investigate the case will camp in Damoh from 7th April to 9th April and investigate. If any victim or any other person wants to provide information related to the case, they can meet the investigation team in Damoh,” Kanoongo mentioned in a submit on Sunday.
The investigation group will look at the establishment and individuals talked about within the grievance, together with administrative officers, he added.
Yadav reportedly joined the hospital in January and carried out at the very least a dozen surgical procedures earlier than leaving the district in February, an official acquainted with the matter mentioned on situation of anonymity.
“We found that he had been active since 2019 as the real doctor N John Camm posted on social media about this fraudster. There was an FIR against him in Telangana as well. All these things are being verified before registering the FIR,” the officer mentioned.
One other Damoh resident, Krishna Patel, mentioned that his grandfather Asharam Patel was admitted to the hospital on January 31 when docs knowledgeable him that the latter had suffered a coronary heart assault and demanded ₹50,000 as deposit. “But the doctors refused to share medical reports and said there was need of immediate surgery. We then took him to Jabalpur,” Patel mentioned.
Nabi Khan, a 3rd particular person, whose relative to fell sufferer to the fraud, mentioned that following the loss of life of his mom the hospital didn’t share her reviews with the household however as a result of trauma of her demise they didn’t increase objections on the time.
“After death of my mother during surgery, they refused to share any medical reports… I was in trauma so didn’t doubt that such a big hospital could appoint a fake doctor. My mother was killed by the fake doctor and now I want murder FIR against the doctor and hospital administration,” Khan mentioned.
All sufferers complained to the NHRC over the matter. No first data report (FIR) has been filed within the matter.
The supervisor of Mission Hospital, Pushpa Khare, mentioned that an inner investigation has been launched. “We are doing internal investigation and would able to share anything after report only,” Khare mentioned.
Kochar, in the meantime, that the matter is “under investigation as to how the fake doctor was appointed by the hospital and how did they allow a large number of surgeries in a month.”
The hospital, nonetheless, will not be new to controversy.
The hospital’s proprietor Dr Ajai Lall was earlier accused in a case of unlawful conversion and little one trafficking filed by Nationwide Fee for Safety of Youngster Rights (NCPCR) in November 2022. He was later acquitted within the case in September 2024.