Thursday, February 19, 2009
Modasa ( Sabarkantha ) : There is a growing worry among health officials that local doctors may have helped spread the deadly hepatitis B virus in Modasa instead of curtailing it out of sheer carelessness. Sources said the doctors may have reused infected syringes instead of disposing them. So far, six private doctors in Sabarkantha have been accused of medical malpractice. They are facing allegations of not segregating bio-medical waste, which means that infected syringes could have found their way into community bins, inscreasing the possibility of them being reused. The doctors booked are Govind Prajapati, Dattu Rawal, Bharat Shah, Girish Shah, Tarun Shah and Rakesh Shah. To add to this, a homeopath was arrested on Thursday for posing as a regular physician and treating patients affected by the Hepatitis-B. Modasa town police station officials arrested Dr Rakesh Patel for medical malpractice and produced him before a court which granted him bail. Patel was accused of dispensing allopathic medicines despite being a non-practitioner. After Hepatitis-B epidemic surfaced, the government conducted raids on some private doctors and found them following unhygenic medical practices. On February 14 medical officer, primary health centre (PHC), Modasa, Siraj Sutaria filed an FIR against Patel. According to police, Patel administered orthopaedic drugs to patients illegally. He was charged under sections 30 and 33 of the Medical Practitioners' Act.
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