New Delhi, Dec 7 (PTI) The Delhi Medical Council has toldthe Directorate General of Health Services to take "stringentaction" against a private diagnostic centre in connection withthe alleged medical negligence in preparing an HIV test reportof a man, a senior DMC official said today.
The man, hailing from Uttarakhand, was allegedly wronglydeclared "HIV positive" in his medical report, the officialsaid.
"He was to visit Dubai early this year for a job. For hismedical test, he went to a diagnostic lab in south Delhi's NewFriends Colony area, which declared him HIV positive inFebruary. The person then went to another lab in Gurgaon andUttarakhand, and both declared him HIV negative," DMCRegistrar Girish Tyagi said.
"The man then filed a complaint with the Medical CouncilOf India which then sent it to us. Despite several noticessent by the DMC to the diagnostic centre, in May and August,it did not respond," he alleged.
Tyagi said the medical authorities at the local levelhave been asked to take "appropriate action".
"The Executive Committee directs that the DGHS berequested to take note of its observations made here in aboveand take stringent action including closure of the...as it isapprehended that such a centre may not be equipped or haveproper qualified doctors, to run laboratory tests," the orderissued last month by the DMC said. PTI KNDKJ.
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