The Hindu : Kidney racket: IMA for Govt. probe

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Monday, Dec 02, 2002

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Southern States - Kerala

Kidney racket: IMA for Govt. probe

By Our Staff Reporter

PALAKKAD Dec. 1. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) State committee here today demanded that the State Government order a comprehensive inquiry into the controversial kidney transplantation racket rocking the State. The IMA accused the State Government of not taking any interest to investigate the matter and bring out the truth. IMA leaders said the State Government should inquire into the racket since the IMA has no statutory powers to conduct such an inquiry.

Addressing a press conference after the meeting, the IMA State president, P.T. Cherian, the secretary, Suresh Kumar, N. Baskaran, past president, R.C. Ashokan, past secretary, the former IMA all-India president, K.G. Velayudhan Pillai, and others said that Mohammad Ali who conducted an inquiry into the racket on behalf of the IMA, had submitted two reports on the matter. The IMA has not made any changes in the commission report. The IMA State committee recommended to the national committee to expel Dr. Ali, head of the inquiry committee on the kidney transplantation racket, as he has misused the organisation and brought disrepute to the medical fraternity.

The committee asked Dr. Ali to quit all official posts in the organisation. Since Dr. Ali is a National Council member of the IMA, the State unit has no right to expel him from the organisation. So it has requested the national committee to expel him from the organisation for his attempt to protect the guilty in the kidney transplantation racket.

The committee demanded that the Government bring amendments to the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 to stop such rackets in future.

Meanwhile, DYFI and Yuvajana Vedi activists organised protest demonstrations in front of the venue of the IMA meeting to protest against their alleged bid to cover up the controversial kidney transplantation issue. The Yuvajana Vedi activists stormed the meeting hall and distributed notices against the IMA and left the venue. The 200-strong DYFI activists were stopped by the police in front of the gate of the venue. They left after holding a protest meeting.

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