More skeletons are coming out of Khyati Hospital’s wardrobe for jeopardizing people’s life for illegal gains under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (PM-JAY). Investigators discovered that the Ahmedabad hospital conducted angioplasty on an 18-year-old following a primary check-up at a medical camp, raising the prospect that other young persons may have been operated on for illegal monetary benefits.
Police have also come across four more deaths, suspected to be caused by unnecessary angioplasties at the hospital, taking the toll to nine. The details of these cases are being verified by investigators. “We have learned that the accused performed angioplasty on very young patients, including an 18-year-old. We are yet to receive documents from PM-JAY officers under which the medical procedure was conducted. We will be able to identify all the patients once we have the documents,” a senior crime branch officer said, adding that these patients were taken for angioplasty after holding camps in their respective villages — a modus operandi the hospital administration used in all cases that have come to light so far.
All three dead patients were from Kadi and had received information on artery blockages during health camps. The FIR said that none of them required angioplasty. On Monday, the Ahmedabad crime branch apprehended five suspects at a farm near Kapadvanj in Kheda district. Among them was Chirag Rajput, the hospital’s director of marketing and branding, and the suspected mastermind behind the illegal profiting from PM-JAY and other government initiatives.
Investigations into the Nov 11 angioplasty deaths of two patients from Mehsana’s Borisana village — Mahesh Barot (52) and Nagar Senma (72) — led cops to three more such cases at the hospital over the past 18 months, bringing the racket to light.
The other three were CEO Rahul Jain, Milind Patel, who organized camps and met with general physicians in Ahmedabad and surrounding regions to refer patients to Khyati Hospital, and Pankil Patel and Pratik Bhatt, who held camps and persuaded individuals to undergo medical operations.
On Wednesday, a local judge ordered them to remain in police detention for three days. On November 13, three FIRs were filed against Khyati Hospital’s founder, Kartik Patel, director Dr. Sanjay Patolia, cardiologist Dr. Prashant Vajirani, Rajshree Kothari, and Rajput. They have been charged with culpable murder and conspiring to defraud PM-JAY.
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Source: TOI
