MCI reprimands top doctors for attempting dog dialysis at SSKM hospital
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New Delhi: Pronouncing its decision on the controversial case that had erupted in 2015 after the West Bengal Medical Council's president had allegedly referred a relative's dog for dialysis at the state-run SSKM Hospital, the Ethics Committee of the Medical Council of India (MCI) recently reprimanded the three doctors involved.
The three doctors in question included Dr Nirmal Majhi, President West Bengal Medical Council; Dr Pradip Kumar Mitra, the then Director, SSKM Hospital and Dr Rajendra Pandey, HOD Nephrology Department at the hospital. The controversial case has its origins in 2015, after media reports surfaced narrating the incident of Dr Majhi, taking a relative's dog to the hospital for dialysis. A Mail Today report narrating the incident described that Majhi referred the dog to the nephrology department of SSKM Hospital and following up to Maji's request, nephrology department head Dr Rajendra Pandey forwarded the matter to hospital's director Dr Pradeep Mitra. "An unidentified dog advised for hemo-dialysis," the note to Mitra stated
The three doctors in question included Dr Nirmal Majhi, President West Bengal Medical Council; Dr Pradip Kumar Mitra, the then Director, SSKM Hospital and Dr Rajendra Pandey, HOD Nephrology Department at the hospital. The controversial case has its origins in 2015, after media reports surfaced narrating the incident of Dr Majhi, taking a relative's dog to the hospital for dialysis. A Mail Today report narrating the incident described that Majhi referred the dog to the nephrology department of SSKM Hospital and following up to Maji's request, nephrology department head Dr Rajendra Pandey forwarded the matter to hospital's director Dr Pradeep Mitra. "An unidentified dog advised for hemo-dialysis," the note to Mitra stated
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