The Gujarat Medical Council (GMC) has suspended the licence of Ahmedabad-based Dr Vivek Yadav for six months after it was found that his clinic was run by a quack.
According to the council, a serious complaint was filed against Yadav who runs Om Clinic in Kuha of Daskroi taluka.
The primary health centre in Kuha and the district panchayat team conducted a surprise check and found that instead of Dr Yadav, a doctor without any valid degree was treating patients.
GMC heard the case and sought an explanation from the doctor. The council thereafter suspended Dr Yadav’s licence for six months.
In a separate case heard by GMC, Dr Hiren Mashru, a paediatrician at Rajkot’s Nihit Baby Care Hospital was suspended for a year.
Mashru was involved in ₹65.47 lakh scam concerning fraudulent documentation on the Ayushman portal.
He was accused of manipulating records and filing fake medical reports of 116 patients to claim money under the PMJAY scheme (Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana), a government health insurance scheme in India.
For the scam, Mashru was fined ₹6.54 crore by the state health commissioner’s department in June 2024.
The state also directed to give refunds to all the 116 patients of PMJAY as he applied 10% more of the treatment for them.