KOLKATA: Former R G Kar Medical School principal Sandip Ghosh ceases to be a physician with the West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) cancelling his medical practitioner registration on Thursday. Ghosh, an orthopaedic surgeon, will no extra have the ability to practise until the cancellation is revoked. The hanging off of Ghosh’s identify occurred on a day when varied physician organisations demonstrated in entrance the council’s workplace demanding cleaning of the council that’s mired in controversy.
“We have now cancelled the registration of Sandip Ghosh as he didn’t reply to the show-cause discover even after 13 days,” stated a WBMC official.
Council registrar Manas Chakraborti had instructed TOI on Wednesday {that a} choice on Ghosh’s removing from the council’s registration as a medical practitioner was taken and the official discover will likely be issued by Thursday.
Ghosh, who’s at the moment behind the bar and was served a show-cause by the council asking him to answer inside three days on Sept 6, was already in CBI custody. He was arrested first on Sept 2 on monetary irregularity expenses to which the investigation company added proof destruction expenses on Sept 14.
The Thursday discover stated that Ghosh’s registration is cancelled in keeping with provisions underneath part 25(a)(ii) of the Bengal Medical Act, 1914 and part 37 (iii) of the Code of Medical Ethics adopted by the council.
Since Ghosh was already behind the bar when the discover was served, sources stated he might contest the cancellation later as he was not accessible when the show-cause was served to him.
In a letter signed by its president Dilip Kumar Dutta and honorary secretary Sanatnu Sen, IMA West Bengal on Wednesday had shot off a strongly worded letter to the WBMC on why it was delaying on the cancellation of Ghosh’s registration.
The medical fraternity has been alleging that WBMC is the origin of corrupt practices. Varied physician organisations, together with the Joint Platform of Docs West Bengal, IMA West Bengal and Defend the Warriors, held an agitation on the council’s workplace demanding dissolution of the council and recent polls to elect new members.
“We additionally wished to know what the council has completed to the likes of Avik De, Birupaksha Biswas and Mustafizur Rehaman. What about its president Sudipto Roy and Sushanta Roy who’re underneath the scanner of investigation companies,” stated normal surgical procedure professor Manas Gumta of Joint Platform of Docs. The protesting docs cited a number of causes as to why the medical council needs to be dissolved.
