The Tamil Nadu Medical Council has suspended the licence of two doctors –a private practitioner and an assistant professor in a government medical college hospital –for issuing identity certificate for deceased persons.
While the private practitioner only had his licence suspended for three months, the government doctor cannot practice medicine for two years. The Council was dissatisfied with the explanation provided by the doctors.
K. Badri Prasad, the private practitioner, had issued certificates in Hosur for two deceased persons identified as Sabitha, who died on October 16, 2019, and Shylaja Jayasurya, who died on July 18, 2020. He issued certificates on Sept 7, 2020, stating that both the women were alive on the mentioned date. He also attested their photographs, said R. Vinod Kumar, the complainant from Bengaluru.
