Kolkata: The West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) has sought clarification from a UK-based Kolkata doctor who has been treating patients as an anaesthetist, while allegedly lacking a valid postgraduate MD degree in anesthesiology, The Statesman has reported.
Addressing the matter, the Medical Council issued a notice to the UK-based Doctor back in April at his Kalighat Road residence. The doctor had completed his undergraduate medical degree, i.e., MBBS degree, from a Kolkata-based government medical college under the University of Calcutta.
Confirming that the doctor has been asked to provide a clarification, the President of WBMC, Dr. Sudipta Roy, said that if the doctor does not respond to the notice, necessary action would be taken against him.
"We think it’s a gross violation of the Indian Medical Council Act and a clarification notice has been served to his Kolkata residence. We are awaiting his reply, otherwise necessary action would be taken against him as per the provisions mentioned in the Act," Dr. Roy, who is also a Trinamul Congress MLA, told The Statesman on Thursday.
The doctor, who has been asked to clarify regarding his medical degree by the Medical Council, hails from the Kalighat area of the city. He was a prominent face among the protestors belonging to the United Kingdom (UK) unit of Students’ Federation of India (SFI), and had raised questions on the brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee at R G Kar Medical College when the Chief minister Mamata Banerjee was addressing in programme organised by an Oxford University-affiliated college in London on 27 March.
As per The Statesman, the doctor was also involved in a controversy in London after he was found asleep without giving any medical attention to a pregnant woman while she was delivering a baby on the operating table. Allegedly, the patient was administered anaesthetic drugs by the doctor.