In a partial reprieve for Dr Naresh Trehan, who was ousted from the position of executive director of Escorts Heart Institute on Friday, the Delhi High Court on Saturday ruled that he can operate in and manage the hospital till August 6. The court said that Dr Trehan can have unrestricted entry into the hospital till then.
This ruling came on a day of high drama in which the Fortis Healthcare management filed a case of vandalism against Dr Trehan and alleged that he trespassed into prohibited areas of the hospital. “He has forced his way into the hospital and behaved like a juvenile. We have filed a police case for what he did. It is trespassing and vandalism,” Fortis Healthcare MD Shivinder Mohan Singh told the media on the 4th floor of Escorts hospital.
A few hours later and two floors below, after emerging from the operating theatre, a defiant Dr Trehan hit back: “I have not touched anything. I just touched my patients. It is a desperate move on the part of the management.”
Dr Trehan contested the right of Fortis to terminate his contract and claimed that he had a contract with the Escorts Heart Society which expires only in 2010. “Under no moral or legal authority can they terminate my contract. As a professional I will continue to treat my patients in the hospital.’’
Accusing Fortis, which acquired Escorts Heart Institute in 2005, of various wrongdoings, Dr Trehan said: “ I have become inconvenient to the management as I live by the law.” He added that there was a 200% case for legal action against his dismissal.
Listing the litany of misdemeanours, Dr Trehan said, “ The leases of Jassaram Hospital, Rajan Dhall hospital and Escorts have been cancelled. The cost of operation has increased from Rs 1.75 lakh to Rs 2.20 lakh in the last two years; even the rate of audiography has gone up in the hospital when the whole world has brought it down.”
Then came the punchline from Delhi’s most famous heart surgeon: “Doctors are looked down upon and treated as servants!” The doctors and staff ET spoke to also seemed to be solidly behind Dr Trehan.
While Dr Trehan claims he was not informed of the management’s decision to remove him, Mr Shivinder Mohan Singh counters, “I personally spoke to him and a letter was also given to him before the announcement. It is because of his stature that we waited for two years. Talks were going on for the merger of his Medicity with Escorts but it had failed. It is the prerogative of the institute to take decisions to remove an employee.”
Top executives from the company alleged that Dr Trehan was hand-in-glove with Anil Nanda, who challenged his older brother Rajan Nanda’s sale of Escorts Heart Institute to Fortis and “wanted to own the hospital.”
Before the fracas began, a group of about 70 people, mostly relatives of patients, protesting against Dr Trehan’s removal broke open his room. One relative even alleged that the move was similar to an “attempt to murder a patient.”
This ruling came on a day of high drama in which the Fortis Healthcare management filed a case of vandalism against Dr Trehan and alleged that he trespassed into prohibited areas of the hospital. “He has forced his way into the hospital and behaved like a juvenile. We have filed a police case for what he did. It is trespassing and vandalism,” Fortis Healthcare MD Shivinder Mohan Singh told the media on the 4th floor of Escorts hospital.
A few hours later and two floors below, after emerging from the operating theatre, a defiant Dr Trehan hit back: “I have not touched anything. I just touched my patients. It is a desperate move on the part of the management.”
Dr Trehan contested the right of Fortis to terminate his contract and claimed that he had a contract with the Escorts Heart Society which expires only in 2010. “Under no moral or legal authority can they terminate my contract. As a professional I will continue to treat my patients in the hospital.’’
Accusing Fortis, which acquired Escorts Heart Institute in 2005, of various wrongdoings, Dr Trehan said: “ I have become inconvenient to the management as I live by the law.” He added that there was a 200% case for legal action against his dismissal.
Listing the litany of misdemeanours, Dr Trehan said, “ The leases of Jassaram Hospital, Rajan Dhall hospital and Escorts have been cancelled. The cost of operation has increased from Rs 1.75 lakh to Rs 2.20 lakh in the last two years; even the rate of audiography has gone up in the hospital when the whole world has brought it down.”
Then came the punchline from Delhi’s most famous heart surgeon: “Doctors are looked down upon and treated as servants!” The doctors and staff ET spoke to also seemed to be solidly behind Dr Trehan.
While Dr Trehan claims he was not informed of the management’s decision to remove him, Mr Shivinder Mohan Singh counters, “I personally spoke to him and a letter was also given to him before the announcement. It is because of his stature that we waited for two years. Talks were going on for the merger of his Medicity with Escorts but it had failed. It is the prerogative of the institute to take decisions to remove an employee.”
Top executives from the company alleged that Dr Trehan was hand-in-glove with Anil Nanda, who challenged his older brother Rajan Nanda’s sale of Escorts Heart Institute to Fortis and “wanted to own the hospital.”
Before the fracas began, a group of about 70 people, mostly relatives of patients, protesting against Dr Trehan’s removal broke open his room. One relative even alleged that the move was similar to an “attempt to murder a patient.”
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