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Two of Patel’s chap villagers — Mahesh Girdhar Barot (52) and Nagar Moti Senma (75) — mislaid their lives connected November 11, 2024, aft undergoing what the wellness department's adept committee called “completely unnecessary” angioplasty surgeries astatine Khyati Multispeciality Hospital. (File Photo)
Family members of respective survivors — from Mehsana — of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) racket, wherever 2 men died portion undergoing allegedly “completely unnecessary” angioplasty surgeries, connected Saturday submitted an exertion with the Commissioner of Police successful Ahmedabad City seeking FIRs against the administrators of Khyati Multispeciality Hospital, wherever these surgeries were performed.
The household members who had travelled from Mehsana’s Borisana colony to Ahmedabad were seeking the filing of FIRs against the infirmary administrators for “wrongful diagnostics and surgeries conducted” connected their kin past year. The improvement comes 2 days aft 1 of the 17 survivors, Kanti Babaldas Patel (72), died astatine his location connected January 23. His household had alleged that Patel, a farmer, had go “increasingly sick aft his traumatic acquisition astatine the Khyati hospital”. Two of Patel’s chap villagers — Mahesh Girdhar Barot (52) and Nagar Moti Senma (75) — mislaid their lives connected November 11, 2024, aft undergoing what the wellness department’s adept committee called “completely unnecessary” angioplasty surgeries astatine Khyati Multispeciality Hospital.
The radical was incapable to conscionable Commissioner of Police GS Malik but submitted an exertion astatine the Commissionerate. They past went to Vastrapur Police Station, the archetypal jurisdiction of the hospital, and again sought filing of FIRs based connected complaints from the survivors. However, immoderate of the radical members, including Kanti Patel’s lad Kamlesh, were taken to the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) which is investigating the 3 cases successful this matter, said Jagdish Sadhu, whose begetter Dinesh is 1 of the survivors.
In December 2024, the survivors, led by Jagdish Sadhu, had filed a petition successful the Gujarat HC seeking the filing of FIRs successful the case. A January 17, 2025, bid by Justice Sandeep J Bhatt, accessed by The Indian Express, disposed of the petition by asking “the acrophobic authorization to look into the substance and determine the same”.
On Saturday, Police Inspector of Vastrapur Police Station, LL Chavda, told The Indian Express, “We person told them that the applicable conception related to ‘attempt astatine culpable homicide’ is already determination successful the FIR filed connected behalf of the authorities government”.
When they reached the Crime Branch, nary officials were disposable to conscionable them determination arsenic well. Kanti Patel’s lad Kamlesh told The Indian Express, “We gave a connection regarding my father’s demise. They asked america to travel backmost connected January 28 if we inactive privation to record an FIR”.
Notably, aft the deaths of Barot and Senma astatine Khyati Hospital connected November 11, the villagers had reached the infirmary and vandalised it. This led to the wellness curate himself looking into the case.
A full of 3 FIRs were filed against the owners and employees of Khyati Hospital astatine Vastrapur Police Station successful Ahmedabad. After each 3 cases were transferred to the DCB, a full of 9 radical were arrested.
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