Fake patients: Hospital loses its licence

Lucknow: Health department has cancelled the licence of the hospital running under

MC Saxena Group

of Colleges (

MCSGC

) after not getting response to its show cause notice in the matter of fake patients.“The management of MCSGC had been given time till Monday to put up their defence but they failed to do so. Therefore, we are cancelling its licence,” said chief medical officer Dr Manoj Agrawal.Earlier, a police raid on February 9 had found dozens of labourers occupying hospital beds as patients. A team of government doctors after examination found these patients to be healthy.The group had lured them to pose as patients in order to get recognition from the

Medical Council of India

. The hospital is attached to the group’s medical college.