Updated On: 12 January, 2023 07:54 AM IST | Mumbai | Suraj Pandey
After this paper’s expose on contractual doctors leaving ICU patients to go party, VN Desai Hospital demands cancellation of their licence

Jeevan Jyot Charitable Trust provided MD and MBBS doctors in shifts to VN Desai Hospital. Pic/Satej Shinde
Following mid-day’s expose on the questionable services provided by contractual doctors of Jeevan Jyot Charitable Trust to the civic-run VN Desai Hospital, the hospital initiated an inquiry and discontinued its services.
The hospital officials also wrote to the Deputy Municipal Commissioner of health seeking action (cancellation of registration) against two doctors - one who went out to celebrate a birthday, the other disappeared - who left patients in ICU at the mercy of God. mid-day had reported on September 20, 2022 that Dr Chetan Rathod and Dr Mandar Muley, provided by Jeevan Jyot Charitable Trust to VN Desai Municipal General Hospital, left seven ICU patients to their fate for hours on the night of September 16. It was alleged that one doctor went to Dr R.N Cooper Hospital to celebrate a birthday and the other disappeared.