DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand Medical Council (UKMC) has temporarily suspended the licence of Padma Shri awardee Dr Yogi Aeron for allegedly botching some surgeries performed on the face of a Dehradun-based woman between November 2018 and February 2020. The woman claimed that she developed breathing issues after the procedures.
The complainant, Neeta Thapa, said she had approached the octogenarian plastic surgeon after she observed a medium-sized wart just above her upper lip. In her complaint, she claimed that the doctor took a part of the skin from her forehead without her permission to conduct a nose implant.
"These surgeries caused me a lot of mental agony... and cost me around Rs 10 lakh, pushing me into debt," she alleged in her complaint to UKMC.
Meanwhile, Dr Yogi Aeron alleged that the complaint had been made with "malicious intent" as the patient was "already battling depression". "She had lost her beauty parlour business during the Covid lockdown," he claimed. "We are selfless service providers...we are open to providing her the best solutions even now. The surgeries done by me were in complete adherence to medical protocols," he added.
