Whilst a visiting heart specialist, Dr Prashant Vazirani, was arrested late on Wednesday within the case of demise of two Ayushman Bharat PMJAY beneficiaries following alleged pointless angioplasty at Khyati Hospital, a non-public hospital in Ahmedabad, all 4 administrators of the hospital, named in three FIRs filed within the case, remained elusive to the police.
“Hospital Chairman Kartik Jasu Patel, CEO Chirag Hirasingh Rajput, Director Rajshree Pradeep Kothari, and Bariatric Surgeon Dr Sanjay Mulji Patolia remained on the run from the police,” confirmed Zone-1 DCP Himanshu Kumar Verma.
An in depth have a look at who they’re and their position within the functioning of the hospital:
1. Kartik Jasu Patel
Kartik Jasu Patel, who the police mentioned is presently in Australia, is well-known in Ahmedabad as a builder together with his group of firms concerned in many alternative sectors from schooling to healthcare, and finance to leisure.
Patel himself, The Indian Specific has discovered, is within the administration of at the very least 16 completely different company entities in addition to at the very least one Belief, particulars of that are within the public area. Patel is a Director in at the very least seven firms together with Ahmedabad Bariatrics and Cosmetics Pvt Ltd, the holding firm of the hospital in query, since January 21, 2021.
He’s the Managing Director (MD) of two firms, Khyati Multimedia-Leisure Ltd and Khyati Retail and Eatery Pvt Ltd. Patel can be a Designated Associate in seven Restricted Legal responsibility Partnerships (LLPs).”
2. Rajshree P Kothari
Rajshree Pradeep Kothari, in response to sources near the corporate, just isn’t actively concerned with the operations of the hospital. She is the spouse of businessman Pradeep Ravichandra Kothari, who owns Future Tyres Pvt Ltd.
Pradeep Kothari was an Further Director in Ahmedabad Bariatrics and Cosmetics Pvt Ltd between February 6, 2021 and September 22, 2021. On the identical day as his exit, Rajshree grew to become Director of the corporate. The Kotharis are additionally administrators in one other agency referred to as Finesse Prescribed drugs Pvt Ltd since March 2023, run by their two sons.
3. Dr Sanjay M Patolia
Dr Sanjay Patolia has been serving because the Director of Ahmedabad Bariatrics and Cosmetics Pvt Ltd since September 29, 2012. In line with his web site, Dr Patolia was the Founder Director of Asian Bariatrics and subsequently, Khyati Multispeciality Hospital Ahmedabad in addition to New Life Hospital in Rajkot earlier in 2005.
He has over 20 years of expertise within the discipline of Bariatric Surgical procedure. His skilled expertise contains stint as Assistant Professor within the Division of Surgical procedure on the Authorities Hospital in Rajkot in1999; personal apply as gastro and bariatric – metabolic surgeon between 2005 and 2014 at New Life Hospital in Rajkot; Director at Asian Bariatrics, Ahmedabad, between 2014 and 2019, and Director at Khyati Multispeciality Hospital in Ahmedabad 2019 onwards.
Dr Patolia has additionally served because the Former Treasurer of the Weight problems and Metabolic Surgeons Society of India (OSSI).
4. Chirag H Rajput
Rajput has been the face of Khyati Multispeciality Hospital, notably for the reason that demise of the 2 males from Borisana village. Rajput could possibly be seen issuing statements to the media within the aftermath of alleged vandalism on the premises by the kin of the deceased.
Whereas Rajput, on Tuesday and Wednesday, spoke to the media individuals gathered on the hospital, stating a number of instances that the hospital would cooperate with the police, he was nowhere to be seen by Wednesday night after Dhananjay Dwivedi, the Principal Secretary of Well being in Gujarat, introduced that the house owners of the hospital can be booked for culpable murder.
Rajput has been a Director of Ahmedabad Bariatrics and Cosmetics Pvt Ltd since January 21, 2021. Sources advised The Indian Specific that Rajput was once a Medical Consultant (MR) for pharmaceutical firms and later transitioned to hospital administration. Earlier, he labored at SAL Hospital.
5. Dr Prashant Vazirani
Dr Vazirani, the son of an eminent heart specialist, is the “visiting” heart specialist who’s alleged to have carried out the angiography and angioplasty surgical procedures on the sufferers from Borisana village following a medical camp there. He was arrested on Wednesday.
He’s accused of being complicit within the prison conspiracy to cheat the federal government exchequer by performing these “pointless surgical procedures to make illicit monetary acquire beneath the PMJAY-MA scheme”. He runs Dr Vazirani’s Cardiology & Youngster Care Clinic together with his spouse at Prahladnagar in Ahmedabad.
In line with the web site of this clinic, Dr Vazirani is a Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI) within the US, in addition to a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology
(FESC).
The three-FIR conundrum
A press release from the Ahmedabad Metropolis Police on Thursday said that two FIRs, one every filed at Kadi police station in Mehsana by the households of the deceased victims, had been transferred to Vastrapur police station in Ahmedabad metropolis the place the primary FIR was registered on behalf of the state authorities. Usually, this might imply that every one three FIRs can be mixed to conduct a single investigation, however that doesn’t appear attainable on this case. The Indian Specific has learnt that the unique FIR at Vastrapur offers with the accused allegedly dishonest the federal government exchequer whereas the opposite two FIRs filed in Kadi pertain to dishonest particular person households.
Now, with Dr Vazirani arrested within the case pertaining to dishonest the federal government with regard to the “PMJAY racket”, police are grappling with a number of questions: Will he be arrested twice over within the different two instances? Will this process be repeated for the opposite 4 accused? Will anticipatory or common bail must be obtained for all three instances? Will the police must file one or three completely different chargesheets in these instances? The Indian Specific spoke to police officers who mentioned that these technicalities in regulation are but to be sorted out, at the same time as police groups are on the hunt to arrest the 4 administrators of the hospital.
Verify up of sufferers incomplete
In a report printed on November 14, The Indian Specific reported that Vastrapur police had picked up at the very least 15 sufferers from Borisana village, who had been admitted and discharged from Khyati Multispeciality Hospital, and brought them to UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Analysis Centre (UNMICRC) for a medical check-up. Nonetheless, a day later, the examine up of those sufferers had nonetheless not been accomplished. Dr Jasmin Patel, Resident Medical Officer (RMO) of UNMICRC, mentioned, “The situation of all of the sufferers is secure. Nonetheless, their check-up just isn’t full as a result of the hospital is but to obtain the angiography CDs of all of the sufferers.”
