Doctors hack off medical ethics
CNN-IBN
Posted Saturday , July 29, 2006 at 20:16
Updated Saturday , July 29, 2006 at 20:41 Email Print
New Delhi: Ajay Agarwal, senior orthopaedic surgeon at the Ghaziabad and Noida district hospitals, was not only willing to amputate beggar’s limbs for money but when promised more cash, he even introduced the CNN-IBN and DIG team to his partners in crime.
DIG: Dr Saheb ek cheez aur. Jo aapse phone per baat ki thi. Hum log is kam ke expand kar rahai hai, not only Ghaziabad. (Dr we are expanding our work and not only in Ghaziabad).
Dr Agarwal: Har district main ek ek de de ta hoon (I will give you one in each district).
DIG: Mujhe char dijiye, ek to mujhe apne Panipat bataya tha, Jaipur bataya tha (Give me four. You said one was in Panipat and the other in Jaipur)
Dr Agarwal: As pass ilake me kar lo (Do your work in nearby areas).
DIG: Kahan (Where?)
Dr. Agarwal: Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur.
Dr Agarwal quickly made a series of phone calls revealing a network of doctors who would agree to chop hands, arms, legs and in fact any limb for a price.
Dr Agarwal: Hello Arvind. Dr Ajay Agarwal Ghaziabad se. Aur kya haal hain, kaise chal raha hai kam dham. Ek kuch sansatha hain Goa ki, to jisse beggar ka ya diseased person, ka kuch amputation ke cases Bareilly mein karne ki cha rahee hai.. To tum kar dooge? (Hello Arvind. I am Dr Ajay Agarwal from Ghaziabad. How are you and how is the work? There is an organisation from Goa and it wants some beggars and diseased persons to be amputated in Bareilly. Will you do it?)
His sales pitch exposed his familiarity with the horrific practice of amputation.
Dr Agarwal: Bakaida patient consent de rehe hai. Aapko surgeon charges de rahe hai. Aapko kahin dikkat hain, aur yeh bahut moti si baat mano. Do beggar tumhare saamne khade hain, ek ka pair kata hai tumari jeb main ek sikka hai kis ko doge? Jiska amputation hai (The patient is giving his consent. You have to pay only the fee for the surgery. Believe me if there are two beggars before you and one of them is lame you will give the give money to the lame beggar.)
Dr Agarwal: Vohi consent dega patient ka, aur yeh surgeon ko surgeon charges pura denge, to tum kar paoge? Beggars ki earning badh jaati hai. (He will give the consent for the patient and will pay the surgeon’s fee. So will you do it? The earning of the beggar increases).
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'...a network of doctors who would agree to chop hands, arms, legs and in fact any limb for a price.'
perhaps these doctors don't think those poor people can perform any 'meritorious' acts with their limbs?
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