Uttar Pradesh: Class 8 pass hospital owner booked for operating patient

The district Acting Chief Medical Officer (ACMO) Ashok Kumar Handa sealed the hospital and registered an FIR against the man after submitting a preliminary report in the matter.

Shamli Superintendent of Police (SP) Dinesh Kumar P said: “ACMO investigation found that the man is not at all qualified to operate anyone or even give medicines. He is just class 8 pass and owns the hospital”.

The hospital, which began functioning 6 years ago, has a surgeon, anesthetist and a gynecologist on paper. District chief medical officer (CMO) Dr Rajkumar said: “We talked to the surgeon, Dr A K Singh, and he said he does operations at the hospital but he does not know what the owner does in his absence”.

“The lady gynecologist in the hospital was also not qualified enough to perform surgery. However, our investigation was on the video, which clearly shows that Nardev performing the surgery,” CMO said.

And this is not the first time the hospital has been sealed and came back unscathed, lending credence to allegations that Uttar Pradesh lacks stringent penalties against quackery and periodic checks on hospitals.

There were complaints against the hospital even in the past and it had been sealed thrice. But in the past, the man allegedly managed to get the hospital running using his close political connections.

“It was sealed once during my own time. That time we had a complaint that the hospital did not have a surgeon and an anesthetist. However, later a surgeon and an anesthetist submitted affidavits that they work at the hospital. The hospital was opened after that,” Singh said.