Madurai City police have asked Medical Council of India to take disciplinary action against two doctors – P. Saravanan of Saravana Multi-speciality Hospital and its visiting cardiologist Janarthanan – for professional misconduct by way of cheating patients by inserting stents that had past their expiry dates.
“We have asked the MCI to take appropriate action against the doctors for their professional misconduct,” Commissioner of Police Shailesh Kumar Yadav said.
The city police had registered a case under various Sections of Indian Penal Code for causing disappearance of evidence, criminal breach of trust, cheating, forgery, criminal conspiracy, punishment for abetment, causing hurt by means of poison, with intent to commit an offence, and provisions of Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, against 11 persons, including the doctors and the suppliers of the stents, Thirumala Traders.
The supplier and the doctors had colluded with each other in business of the expired stents. The stents were used for 11 patients operated upon under Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme. The Central Crime Branch of the city police has written to the president of Medical Council of Tamil Nadu in March seeking disciplinary action under Indian Medical Council (Professional conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002.
They were accused of using stents that had past their expiry dates on 11 patients
