The registration of the Mission Hospital in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh was suspended by the State Health Department, district Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) M.K. Jain said on Wednesday (April 16, 2025), amid allegations of multiple deaths of patients treated by Narendra Vikramaditya Yadav, who is accused of posing as a cardiologist.
Dr. Jain said that the hospital had been instructed to not admit any new patients and to shift its patients to the district hospital, or discharge eligible patients within the next three days.
The CMHO is also heading a district-level committee to probe the functioning of the hospital, along with the alleged deaths of heart patients treated by Mr. Yadav, who had posed as “Dr. Narendra John Camm” to work as a cardiologist. The committee has also submitted a report to the administration, flagging multiple alleged violations by the hospital.
Citing District Health Officer Vikrant Singh Chouhan, The Hindu had reported on Tuesday that the hospital had been given a month-long ‘grace period’, and its license could be cancelled soon.
Dr. Jain said that the hospital’s licence had already lapsed on March 31.
“They had applied for a renewal in December, which had been returned due to some shortcomings. They had been given seven days [since the return of the application] to reapply. Since the given period has passed, their licence has been suspended for now,” Dr. Jain said.
He said the hospital could re-apply for a renewal after fixing its shortcomings in accordance with the Madhya Pradesh Nursing Home and Clinical Establishment (Registration and Licensing) Act, 1973.
The hospital’s management, however, has decided to approach the court to challenge the administration’s move.
“They have suspended the license based on a shortage of technicians and doctors. Most hospitals in the State have shortage of staff [and] especially in many government hospitals, the sanctioned strength is more than the available staff,” Mission Hospital’s lawyer, advocate Shashank Shekhar, told The Hindu.
Dr. Jain also highlighted multiple violations in the hospital’s functioning, including “illegally” running a cath lab without a cardiologist.
“They did not have operators for their pathology lab and blood bank. They also did not have a doctor for anaesthesia,” Dr. Jain said, when asked about the reasons for the return of the hospital’s renewal application.
Earlier, on Tuesday, the hospital’s nine-member management committee was booked for allegedly using forged documents and forged signatures of Dr. Dubey to obtain the licence for the cath lab.
Mr. Shekhar claimed that the hospital had applied for the registration of the ‘cath lab’ (cardiac catheterisation laboratory), with Jabalpur-based cardiologist Akhilesh Dubey’s consent.
“It’s not just the signature that is required for the registration. The process also requires OTP verification through email, and the phone number of the doctor, which we cannot get without his consent. He gave his number and email. There was also a letter of declaration that he had given to the hospital, but it was taken away by the NHRC (National Human Rights Commission) team [which visited Damoh to probe the case],” Mr. Shekhar said.
Published – April 16, 2025 09:20 pm IST
