AIIMS Bhopal Ophthalmologist accused of unethical practice
Bhopal: A complaint has been filed against a doctor from the Ophthalmology department of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Bhopal, accusing him of engaging in unethical practices, including running a private store.
A written complaint has been filed against the doctor by an individual, alleging that he operates a clinical store in Saket Nagar under his wife's name and unlawfully conducts Fundus Fluorescein Angiography (FFA) tests at the facility.
The clinical store also provides medicines, and contact lenses, leading to questions surrounding potential conflicts of interest and ethical implications in such practices, stated the complaint. The complainant demands a complete departmental inquiry into the issue, reports Daily.
FFA is a diagnostic procedure that helps to assess the blood circulation in the eye's retina and choroid. It is an angiography for the retinal blood vessels using the Fluorescein dye. It gives us minute details about the blood supply of the retina. Previously patients were not able to access these services in AIIMS and had to seek other options and the necessity of maintaining ethical standards of such tests was crucial. However, now patients can get access to the test in AIIMS.
The doctor, in a statement to Free Press Journal, stated that the complaint was made some years back and it did not come from a patient. He added that AIIMS administration might not have taken the allegations seriously since they often prioritize complaints from patients directly and not from other sources considering that patients are the primary victims in such cases.
“So if any patient has any problem, they should complain and not any third person. The complaint was made when the FFA test was not available at AIIMS. Now, it is available. It is a tactic to malign my image,” the doctor said.
