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Police have registered a case against 15 individuals, including the managing trustee of the Ruby Hall Clinic, a leading private hospital in Pune, and some of its employees in connection with alleged malpractice during a kidney transplant procedure in March this year, an official said. Today.
The crime was registered at the Koregaon Park Police Station late Wednesday on the basis of a complaint filed by the health department of the Maharashtra government, he said.
“We registered the case against 15 individuals, including Parvez Grant, the director of the Ruby Hall Clinic and the hospital staff. They also include the woman who donated her kidney, the recipient husband and his wife,” he said.
The accused were booked under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 420 (cheating), 465, 468, 471 (all related to forgery), 120(B) (criminal conspiracy) and sections of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994, he said.
A woman from Kolhapur, who was reportedly promised Rs 15 lakh, had fraudulently impersonated the wife of a man in need of a transplant and donated her kidney to a young female patient. In turn, the young woman’s mother donated her kidney to the man.
Such an exchange between two patients and their next of kin occurs when the patients cannot obtain a kidney from their own family due to a blood type mismatch.
On March 29, four days after undergoing transplant surgery at the Ruby Hall Clinic, the woman had revealed her real identity after arguing over money.
The hospital then alerted the police, who in turn reported the incident to the health department.
The department later suspended the hospital’s registration for organ transplants, but the Bombay Supreme Court upheld that order.
The functioning of the regional admissions committee for organ transplants was also temporarily suspended.
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