Gorakhpur: A day after reports emerged that Dr Kafeel Khan was removed from all hospital duties at Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College, reports have emerged
that Khan was stealing oxygen cylinders from the hospital for his private clinic.
Reports said that the insufficiency of oxygen cylinders was partially because Dr Khan, nodal officer of the college’s Department of Pediatrics, was stealthily
transporting some to his clinic.
Dr Khan was hailed as a hero for his quick response to disaster that claimed several lives at the Medical College on the intervening night of August 11 and 12.
Dr Rajiv Mishra, the principal who was sacked on Saturday, is also believed to have worked in connivance with Khan, said the reports.
According to reports, Dr Khan, Head of the Encephalitis ward, sprung into action when he received a distress call from the hospital on the intervening night of
August 12 but his act raised some questions- how could the nodal officer not be aware of dwindling oxygen supply needed for his patients?
In addition, Dr Kafeel Khan was also a member of the supplies department- that concerns the stock and storage of medical equipment.
During Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s visit to the medical college on August 9, Dr Kafeel Khan was one of the doctors assisting his review, but
according to the staff- neither did he apprise the CM on the erratic supply of oxygen cylinders nor about hospital defaulting on payments.
When the situation spiralled out of control on the night of August 11, Dr Kafeel Khan hurriedly sent three oxygen cylinders from his clinic to the hospital- all the
while maintaining that he had ‘borrowed’ those.
Speaking to other doctors, junior staff at the BRD College, it surfaced that Khan and then principal Dr Rajiv Mishra received a commission on every hospital
purchase and handled the deals with oxygen cylinder supplier- Pushpa Sales Pvt Ltd.
Allegations are that Dr Kafeel Khan, in cahoots with former principal of BRD Medical College, Dr Rajiv Mishra and his wife Purnima Shukla, are responsible for
the death of 68 patients.
