The Uttarakhand Medical Council (UMC) has suspended the registration of three doctors for unethical practices. These doctors would not be able to practice during the period of suspension.
The registrar of the council, Dr Yashwant Singh Bisht said that the disciplinary committee has found Dr Ravi Raj Nadan of Doiwala, Dr Sunil Singh Gautam of Gautam Super Speciality Centre Rudrapur and Dr V K S Sanjay of Sanjay Orthopaedic, spine and maternity centre, Dehradun of breach of section 6.1 of Indian Medical Board.
On the recommendation of the committee the UMC has suspended the registration of Dr Sunil Singh for a period of one year while the suspension term of Dr Sanjay and Dr Gautam is for six months. He said that if any of these doctors is not found practicing any form of allopathic system of medicine than panel action against them under Indian Medical Council would be initiated. Dr Bisht informed that all these doctors have violated the code of ethics of medical profession.
It is learnt that an accident victim was brought to the Rajpur road based nursing home of Dr V K S Sanjay about six months ago. The patient died but it was not informed to the police nor was the post mortem of the accident victim was done.
This victim was brought to the nursing home by 108 ambulance service. On the complaint by the relatives of the deceased the investigation by UMC found negligence in treatment.
The nursing home was not able to produce even the treatment chart of the victim to the team. Similarly, Dr Ravi Raj Nandan was caught by the National Board for sending some other candidate in the DNB examination.
A case was registered against him and he was debarred for six years from appearing in the DNB examination. Dr Nandan has even served a jail term for this offence. Dr Sunil Gautam of Rudrapur had put up an advertisement in which he was shown taking an award from the President of India. As per the norms of the Medical Council of India no medical practitioner can put up his advertisement depicting his picture.