Vishnukant Tiwari
BBC Hindi
Narendra Ahirwar
Narendra Vikramithya Yadav is accused of having carried out cardiac surgeries that have left seven dead
Police in India arrested a man, accused of usurped the identity of a British doctor, for having surgery that would have resulted in the death of seven patients.
Narendra Vikramithya Yadav – also known as Dr. N John Camm – worked as a cardiologist in a missionary hospital in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
Police accuses him of fraud, cheating and counterfeiting and alleys that the 53 -year -old man, who worked as a doctor for almost two decades, simulated his medical diplomas.
They also investigate allegations according to which he added the name of Professor John Camm, a leading cardiologist at the British hospital St George, for his credibility. Mr. Yadav denied allegations against him.
On Monday, a few hours before his arrest, he sent a legal opinion of 50 million rupees ($ 5,82,985; £ 4.54,969) to two dozen people and publishers for affirming that he was usurped with the identity “of another cardiologist”.
Damoh City’s Mission Hospital, where Mr. Yadav worked for a few weeks, denied knowing his alleged false titles.
“No one suspected of being a false doctor. He was good in his work and acted as a great teacher,” said a hospital official in the Indian Express newspaper.
The case was revealed for the first time in February, when Damoh’s childhood protection committee reported the deaths of district officials.
“We have distinguished ourselves from his expertise and have verified his online references and found that he had business against him in at least three states,” said Deepak Tiwari, president of the Child Protection Committee of the District.
An investigation revealed that Mr. Yadav had left his job in hospital earlier this month and “disappeared” without explanation.
He was arrested in the city of Prayagraj in the state of Uttar Pradesh on Monday evening.
“The accused doctor had worked on a total of 64 cases, including 45 cases of angioplasty, which led to seven deaths of patients,” said police chief Kirti Somvanshi at the BBC Hindi.
It is not yet clear if his diplomas are authentic or false, but the police think they were likely to be forged because the documents lack key details, such as a single registration number given to each student.
BBC Hindi
The hospital where Narendra Vikramithya Yadav worked
This is not the first time that questions have been raised about the identity of Mr. Yadav.
In a 2019 blog article, he said he trained in the United Kingdom under Professor John Camm and joined St George Hospital in 2002 as “interventional cardiologist”.
He said he returned to India for the first time in 2003 to work in a first Delhi heart hospital and had worked in the United States, Germany and Spain since then.
In a position shared in 2021, Mr. Yadav wrote that he was developing a John Camm Institute of 5,000 beds in medical sciences and research in the Western state of Rajasthan.
“The hospital is developed under (the) Direction of Dr. N John Camm, renowned interventional cardiologist from Germany, and will be (will be (will be) spread over 100 acres of land and will have research and world-class tissue laboratories,” he said.
But public files show that he recorded four companies in the United Kingdom in 2018 under the name of Dr Narendra Vikramithya Yadav, which he was then changed for Dr. Narendra John Camm.
In 2023, a well -known fact verifier in India also raised questions about his references after pretending to create an X account (formerly Twitter) under the name of “Prof n John Camm”.
After some of his messages have become viral, the real Professor Camm published a statement stating that it was not his account and that he came from identity.
According to police, Mr. Yadav was also at the center of several other surveys.
In 2019, he was arrested for allegedly removed a British doctor whom he had invited to work with him in a hospital in Hyderabad City.
And in 2014, India medical regulators prohibited it for five years for “professional misconduct”, according to parliamentary files.
The files show that he was also accused of fraud and cheating in 2013 in the Uttar Pradesh. However, a court sparked the complaint against him.
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