Kanpur , A doctor’s driver allegedly examined patients and wrote prescriptions at a government hospital in Kanpur while the assigned doctor attended a court hearing, prompting the authorities to order a probe, a senior health official said on Friday.
Hospital authorities identified the man as Dev, the driver of emergency medical officer Ramkesh. The authorities are also examining how he gained access to the OPD, how many patients he attended and whether he prescribed medicines to them.
Ramkesh was attending a court hearing when the alleged incident took place, according to hospital staff. The committee will examine whether Dev examined patients in the OPD, prescribed medicines and if he had done so on previous occasions as well, and submit a report within three days, he said. The driver has since been removed from the hospital, an official said on condition of anonymity.
The incident came to light after a video surfaced on social media on Wednesday, purportedly showing a man sitting in an OPD room at the Kanshiram Hospital near the Rama Devi Chauraha, speaking to patients and writing prescriptions. An inspection was conducted at the hospital on Tuesday, a day before the purported video surfaced, but no outsider was found at the time, Mishra said.
