Earlier this month, the Delhi Secretariat had ordered the termination of Dr Praveen Singh an associate professor of cardiology who was working on a contractual basis at Delhi government’s Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital after the death of three patients with heart blockage.

On March 10, the action against the doctor was initiated before a committee was set up to review the matter. Dr Sanjay Aggarwal; hospital medical director said that the order came from the Delhi Secretariat and not the hospital and of the reasons could be given by the secretariat.

The four-member committee, comprising of Dr M A Geelani, professor of cardiothoracic and vascular surgery at GB Pant hospital; Dr Ranjit Kumar Nath, head of the department of cardiology at Dr Ram Manohar Lohia hospital; Dr Girish MP, professor of cardiology at GB Pant hospital; and Dr Ankit Bansal, assistant professor of cardiology at GB Pant hospital had been created to investigate the incident. Doctors from the hospital earlier told that the three patients were seriously ill and were taken to the cath lab for stenting. Two patients in the age group of 30 and 40 years died before the stent was placed while the third was a woman above 60 years.

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