Jaipur, June 16: Following the botched surgery allegedly performed by Dr Sanjay Dhankar, the Rajasthan Medical Council revoked his registration to practice medicine.
The council also cancelled the registration of eight other Doctors, and suspended those of two more for a period of six months.
Dr Dhankar conducted the controversial surgery on May 15 at a private hospital in Jhunjhunu. He allegedly removed the healthy kidney of Eid Banu, a 30-year-old woman patient, by mistake instead of the diseased one.
Case of medical negligence against doctors in court now, however following the guidelines of the National Medical Commission, the registrations of doctors Sanjay Dhankhar, Ganpat Singh, M Sajid, M Afzal, Krishna Soni, Bomma Reddy Hari Krishna, Jaydeep Singh, and Baljeet Kaur were cancelled.
The registrations of Dr Ajay Agarwal and Dr Suman Agarwal were suspended for a period of six months.
The state govt had already cancelled the registration of Dhankar Hospital, where the surgery was performed, under the Clinical Establishment Act.
The council also found the degrees of two Govt Doctors, Dr Ganpat Singh and Dr Jaydeep Singh, as fake. The registration of two doctors, who were allegedly found involved in the sex determination of fetuses, has been suspended for six months. Besides, three other doctors in private hospitals were found to be working with fake degrees & their registrations have also been cancelled.
The patient whose healthy kidney was removed is undergoing dialysis and treatment at the super specialty hospital of SMS Medical College.
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