Pathologist sentenced to 2 years jail for lending signatures to Mumbai Path lab
A Karnataka based pathologist has been sentenced to two-year imprisonment for lending his signature to a Mumbai based pathology lab that thereafter gave reports signed with the signature to the patients
Holding two accused guilty for issuing lab reports without verification by an MD Pathologist, the Court of Civil Judge, Navi Mumbai recently sentenced them to imprisonment of two years. The duo, the Karnataka-based doctor as well as the DMLT who was running the Mumbai pathlab, had issued the forged pathology report for blood and urine tests to a doctor who is also a member of a state association of pathologists and microbiologists.
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