AYUSH doctors handling ICUs: Controversy surrounds private hospitals
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Ministry of Health and Family welfare along with Global standards state that a doctor in an ICU must be an intensivist recognized by Medical Council of India with relevant training for Intensive care. The investigation by the Media House revealed that several private hospitals in Indore and Bengaluru were defying this norm.
New Delhi: A covert investigation by a CNN-News18 team in parts of Bengaluru and Indore has caught a detrimental defiance of norms by several private hospitals revealing that many of the private hospitals are appointing untrained and unqualified or under-qualified doctors for handling Intensive Care Units.
The investigation started with Charak Hospital in Indore that has a permanent doctor on duty in ICU who graduated with a degree in homeopathy and having no formal training to practice critical care. Depended Soni, the homeopathy practitioner told CNN-News18 about his eight years of experience as an 'ICU Specialist'. Further, he informed that he takes care of the ICU with the specialists only being contacted on phone for consultations, "I take all the calls during an emergency, the senior doctors are consulted only on the phone afterwards."
New Delhi: A covert investigation by a CNN-News18 team in parts of Bengaluru and Indore has caught a detrimental defiance of norms by several private hospitals revealing that many of the private hospitals are appointing untrained and unqualified or under-qualified doctors for handling Intensive Care Units.
The investigation started with Charak Hospital in Indore that has a permanent doctor on duty in ICU who graduated with a degree in homeopathy and having no formal training to practice critical care. Depended Soni, the homeopathy practitioner told CNN-News18 about his eight years of experience as an 'ICU Specialist'. Further, he informed that he takes care of the ICU with the specialists only being contacted on phone for consultations, "I take all the calls during an emergency, the senior doctors are consulted only on the phone afterwards."
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