Based on a complaint received from a woman in Sangam Vihar on October 10, the Delhi Police arrested the owner of Agarwal Medical Centre, Neeraj Agarwal, his wife Pooja, Jaspreet Singh, and a former laboratory technician, Mahendra Singh, in the Greater Kailash area of South Delhi.
According to Deputy Commissioner of Police Chandan Chowdhary, Neeraj used to take the help of non-qualified people, including his wife Pooja and Mahendra, to perform surgeries. This is not the first time such a complaint has been received against the medical centre, but in the past, a total of seven complaints were filed against the clinic with the Delhi Medical Council. In all those cases, the patient died due to negligence during the surgery, added Chowdhary.
A complaint was registered on October 10 by a lady at the Greater Kailash police station. The complainant said that her husband was taken to the Agarwal Medical Centre for the removal of a stone in his gallbladder. But the next day, after surgery was done, her husband was in pain and was taken to Safdarjung Hospital, where he was declared “brought dead”. Chowdhary added that, based on this complaint, we took legal action against the clinic, and a panel of doctors in AIIMS was asked to find the cause of death. The panel found that the death was due to excessive bleeding, which occurred due to the surgery not being performed properly, said Chowdhary.
A medical board of four doctors from AIIMS hospital was asked to examine the clinic, where they found flaws in the operation theater. Also, during further investigation, it was revealed that Agarwal used to prepare fake surgery documents, added Chowdhary.
The police have seized 414 prescription slips containing the signatures of doctors, two registers with patient details, several banned medicines, and expired surgical blades.
