more-inThe Delhi Medical Council (DMC) has directed the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) to cancel the license of the city’s Neutech Medical Centre where a young man from Uttarakhand was wrongly declared HIV positive. Fitness testThe complainant, Salim Ahmad, who was asked to undergo a medical fitness test at the Neutech Medical Centre at Taimoor Nagar in south Delhi before going for his new job at Dubai. The medical centre reported him to be a case of HIV+. “DMC examined a complaint from Mr. Ahmad, forwarded by the Medical Council of India, alleging negligence in the preparation of the HIV test report. Stringent actionThe DGHS was urged to “take stringent action including closure of the Neutech Medical Centre as it is apprehended that such a centre may not be equipped or have proper qualified doctors to run lab tests,” the letter added.

Source: The Hindu December 07, 2017 20:15 UTC