The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has appealed to the Uttar Pradesh government to reconsider the suspension of Gorakhpur doctor Kafeel Khan who has been in a limbo since being accused of medical negligence and corruption in the August 2017 oxygen tragedy in Baba Raghav Das Medical College.
In a letter to Uttar Pradesh Medical Education Minister Suresh Khan, the IMA State branch has urged him to “consider regarding his [Dr. Kafeel] suspension.”
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“IMA request[s] you to consider his plight with compassion and merit,” said branch president Ashok Rai and secretary Jayant Sharma in a letter dated November 10.
Dr. Sharma confirmed that a letter had been sent to the government.
“The IMA can only put a word for our member. The government will decide what it wants to do,” he told The Hindu .
Dr. Kafeel, who was released in September from the Mathura jail following the revocation of the National Security Act (NSA) charges against him in a Citizenship (Amendment) Act-related case, says he has till date written 25 letters to State authorities requesting them to revoke his suspension.
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The last three letters were written after the Allahabad High Court quashed the NSA charge against him .
Dr. Kafeel said in the last three years nine different inquires had given him a clean chit on medical negligence and corruption. All doctors who were suspended along with him in connection with the 2017 incident have already been reinstated.
Published - November 12, 2020 01:39 pm IST
