The licence of a private hospital here has been suspended over allegations it circumcised a two-and-a-half-year-old child admitted there for 🎉a tongue surgery, official said Monday.
The health department officials said a probe into the allegations found the management of M Khan Hospital🐬 prima facie responsible in the matter, and Chief Medical Officer Balbir Singh issued orders Sunday night🔥 suspending the licence.
This means t꧂he hospital cannot admit and treat new patients, they said.
The probe in the matter will continue and further action taken if any discrepancy is found in its docu🐼me��nts, Singh said.
During the probe, the child’s famil๊y alleged the circumcision was done as part of a conspiracy as their signature was taken on a document written in English which they could not understand.
A de💃tailed report of the matter will be sent to the government, the CMO said.
In a tweet in Hindi on Saturday, Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak, who also holds the health por꧙tfolio, said he has sent a health department team to the hospital to investigate the matter.
“If the complaint is found correct, orders have been given to the CMO, Bareilly, to register an FIR against the guilt🌊y doctor and hospital management, to cancel the registration of the said hospital with immediate effect, and to make the complete report of the proceedings available within 24 hours,” Pathak had said.
He sa🌃id the hospital would be sealed iಌf the investigation finds reasons to do so, he added.
Bareilly Dis🥃trict Magistra𝐆te Shivakant Dwivedi on Sunday said action against the hospital management will be taken only after the report of the three-member probe team constituted by the Chief Medical Officer comes.
The team was formed on Fr🌌𝄹iday when the alleged incident took place.
A🦂ccording to the Chief Medical Officer, the family had gone to the hospital for the treatment of the child's stammer where they we🔯re suggested a tongue surgery.
However, the child's family alleged the doctors circumcised the child rather tha⭕n performing a tongue surgery.
The matter evoked a strong response from members of Hindu right organisations, who staged protests and raised slogans against the hospital. Police were deployed outside the hospital to contain the agi꧋tation and prevent it fr𒉰om flaring up.
