Fortis management has cited 'conflict of interest' between Naresh Trehan's Medicity project and Escorts Heart Institute for removing the cardiologist.
NEW DELHI: Fortis management has cited 'conflict of interest' between Naresh Trehan's Medicity project and its Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre (EHIRC) for removing the cardiologist, who was given the humiliation treatment by the hospital's security guards on Saturday.
"We have terminated his administrative powers and have asked him to give up his responsibilities. He ceases to be an Executive Director at any of the EHIRC institutions," Fortis Hospitals Managing Director Shivinder Mohan Singh said.
He said Trehan's rights to operate on patients have been withdrawn since Friday and he will be given 'limited entry' till all the patients registered under him are treated.
EHIRC security guards, however, prevented Trehan from entering the hospital premises on Saturday morning and allowed him to enter only after relatives of patients staged a protest.
When contacted, Trehan said family members of patients wanted him to perform surgeries.
"My job is to take care of patients. It was the relatives of those patients on whom serious surgeries had to be done who got worried. Since early morning they have been calling up at my home," he said.
Singh, however, said that the liability of such surgeries would fall on Trehan.
He reiterated that the cardiologist had been asked to give up his responsibilities as a doctor and administrator at the hospital, which Fortis acquired in 2005 from Rajan Nanda for Rs 585 crore.
Singh, who holds a majority 90 per cent stake in EHIRC, however, denied any move to buy Trehan's 10 per cent stake in the institution.
"We have not asked for his stake in the hospital. He continues to be an investor with EHIRC," Singh said.
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