IMA seeks probe after doctor threatens to chuck out Hindu patient
New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has sought an inquiry after a Mumbai-based doctor, in a social media post, allegedly threatened to "chuck out" Hindu patients undergoing dialysis and let them die.
The IMA has written to the Medical Council of India (MCI) to find out if the person is a qualified doctor or quack.
Dr K K Aggarwal, the IMA national president, said he had also asked the associations Maharashtra unit to immediately form a three-member committee and visit the dialysis centre run by the doctor to find out her credentials.
"She is neither a member of the IMA nor registered with the Maharashtra Medical Council. An inquiry needs to be conducted to establish if the person is a genuine doctor or a quack...The matter has been referred to the Maharashtra Medical Council and the Medical Council of India (MCI)," he said.
Aggarwal has said that laws do not allow discrimination on the grounds of religion to anybody and had made it a punishable offence.
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