Daltonganj: Palamu district administration on Saturday sealed a private clinic run by a government doctor named Hari Om Prasad in Daltonganj on charges of diverting patients from state hospitals to clinics for monetary gain through brokers.
Shashi Ranjan deputy commissioner, said Sunday that the government would not renew the clinic registration under the Clinical Establishment Act every more.He said that they would submit a detailed report to the state health department to act against Prasad.He say that the patient is identified as Prince Kumar came to the orthopedic outpatient department Medinirai Medical College Hospital (MMCH) in Daltonganj with a broken right femur.
He has also OPD ticket.
But the patient and his attendant were misguided by doctors and brokers operating in the hospital not to be accepted as a patient in a room at the MMCH.
“The patient and his aides assured by brokers operating in MMCH that he might lose his leg if he admitted here.
Later, he was transferred to a clinic run by Prasad.
Calo and concerned doctor who worked hand in glove, “said DC.The officers from the patient to the government that they have Ayushman Bharat Yojna cards with them even though the patient inadvertently disallowed into a patient room at MMCH Daltonganj.
DC said that he got the following tweet about malpractice that they swung into action.