Lucknow : MD of private hospital arrested for hiring people as patients to get MCI recognition

Lucknow: The managing director and MD of a private medical institute Dr. Shekhar Saxena in Thakurganj was arrested after a police raid which revealed that the laborers were made to play as 'patients' in the hospital in order to get recognition from the Medical Council of India, all to gain recognition to run a medical college.

As per a media report in the Times of India, the raid took place on late Tuesday night after a complaint was filed by a laborer who alleged that the hospital was keeping some people as hostage .The accused person has been identified as the managing director of the MC Saxena Group of College, who was arrested on charges of luring laborers and forcing them to impersonate as patients, in order to pass the MCI inspection. 

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The doctor has been arrested under several charges including voluntarily causing injury by dangerous weapons, wrongful confinement, extortion, dishonesty and forgery.

During the investigation, it was revealed that the doctor had been keeping laborers and workers as hostage to act as patients, in order to pass the inspections of the MCI to get the hospital recognition. Because according to rules, a hospital needs to show a certain minimum number of patients receiving treatment in order to get recognition.

According to DCP, west zone, Somen Barma, a police team who rushed to the hospital confirmed that some laborers were receiving their treatment in the hospital. He added, "We immediately called a doctors' team led by the chief medical officer (CMO) who confirmed that the laborers were all healthy and needed no treatment. We then arrested Dr. Shekhar Saxena and registered a case against him and others."

The DCP said that the laborers were told by the hospital coordinators that they would receive Rs 400-Rs 500 per day for remaining confined to their beds.

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