Made a scapegoat, says Dr Gupta; Chhattisgarh orders probe
RK Gupta, the doctor who conducted 83 sterilisation surgeries at the government-organised family planning camp, in police custody in Bilaspur on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)
Raipur: Four days after the botched sterilisation tragedy struck Chhattisgarh, claiming 14 lives so far, Dr R.K. Gupta, who had conducted the operations was arrested on Thursday.
He however said that he has done nothing wrong. “I am being made a scapegoat. There was nothing wrong in surgeries nor was there any breach in sanitisation of surgical instruments. Spurious drugs had caused the deaths,” he said.
“If there was anything wrong in the surgical process, then why women who had undergone sterilisation in other camps by different doctors also fell sick,” Mr Gupta, who was honoured in the last Republic Day ceremony for undertaking record number of family planning operations, questioned.
Meanwhile, the state on Thursday initiated a series of measures to “bring culprits to book”. The measures included announcement of a judicial probe into the incident.
“Chief Minister Raman Singh ordered a judicial probe into the incident,” state rural development minister Ajey Chandrakar said. He also said that “Dr Gupta violated standard protocol”.
According to him, all 122 women, who have undergone surgery in four different health camps, have been admitted in four hospitals.
The minister refuted the allegations of attempt to destroy evidence saying that the state government has already seized around 1.5 lakh strips of drugs used in these camps, samples of which have been sent to the laboratory at Kolkata for testing.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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