In yet another shocking attempt to restore public image of the disgraced
ex-MCI president, Dr. Ketan Desai, Indian Medical Association (IMA)
will be hosting 89th All India Medical Conference in Ahmedabad on 27th
December, 2014 where Dr. Desai will be delivering the inaugural speech
and the new central health minister, Mr. J.P. Nadda, would appear as the
“chief guest” (see IMA announcement below).
This blatant move by IMA
is not only unethical, it also violates prevailing medical laws in
India. Dr. Desai was caught red-handed by Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) for taking huge bribe from a private medical college
in 2010 when he was still working as MCI president.
In response to
PBT’s appeal, MCI also indefinitely suspended Dr. Desai’s license to
practice medicine and barred him from “participating as a doctor in a medical conference anywhere” vide
an order dated October 9, 2010.
Bringing Dr. Desai to inaugurate the
national medical conference in Ahmedabad, IMA has clearly trampled over
the direction passed by MCI in 2010. But cronies of Dr. Desai are now
occupying top positions in MCI as well as IMA. Little wonder that the
same MCI which barred Desai from participating in any medical conference
is now paving the way to bring him back to the helm of Indian medicine
while he still waits for criminal trial to start.
The same IMA/MCI
leaders also attempted to push Dr. Desai recently for the prestigious
post of World Medical Association (WMA) president through fraudulent
claim that all charges against Dr. Desai have been dropped and that his
license to practice medicine has also been reinstated by MCI. PBT has
submitted an urgent appeal to the health minister today urging him not
to attend the medical conference in Ahmedabad to send a strong signal
against the growing menace of medical corruption.
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