Punjab: Medical Officer suspended for demanding Rs 3000 from patient's kin, audio goes viral
Hoshiarpur: Health Minister Chetan Singh Jauramajra recently suspended a Medical Officer on charges of dereliction of duty. The medical officer posted at Dasuya Civil Hospital in the Hoshiarpur district in an audio clip demanding money from a woman for surgery went viral.
The doctor, identified as Dr Singh, serving at a government hospital demanded Rs 3,000 from a patient's relatives for a gallbladder operation.
The person who recorded the audio is Kamalpreet Kaur, the patient's younger sister who admitted her elder sister to the hospital for an operation to remove the gallbladder stone. Her surgery was assigned to Dr Singh, who specializes in surgery.
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