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Suspended Since 2017, Dr Kafeel Khan Sacked By UP Govt. Says ‘Fight For Justice Must Go On’

The Uttar Pradesh government has sacked Dr. Kafeel Khan. Khan was in suspension since 2017, on charges of medical negligence after 70 children died due to lack of oxygen. 

New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government has sacked Dr Kafeel Khan of BRD Medical College and Hospital of Gorakhpur. Khan was in suspension since 2017, on charges of medical negligence after 63 children died due to lack of oxygen. 

According to a PTI report, Dr Khan has been sacked after being found guilty in the probe into the circumstances leading to the death of children in the hospital, UP Principal Secretary (Medical Education) Alok Kumar said.

Dr. Khan expressed surprise over the termination saying that the action was taken “despite several investigations/clean chit by the court.”

He told PTI that Principal Secretary Kumar had released a statement about the termination, however, he did not receive the termination letter himself.

In a tweet reply to Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi, who shared the information on Dr Kafeel Khan being sacked by the UP government, he said "the fight must go on."

“Among the eight people suspended in the lack of oxygen case in the hospital, the suspension of seven others except mine had been revoked. The court had punished all of them in one or the other manner but the honourable court had given me a clean chit on charges of medical negligence and corruption,” he added.

Khan explained that he was suspended in August 2017, and was given clean chit in April 2019. Though the UP government set up another inquiry in February 2020, it was closed in August 2021. He further added that “I have no hope of justice from this government.”

Talking to the news agency IANS, he said, “I will continue to fight for justice and will challenge the order in court.”

Upon Dr. Khan’s termination, Congress general Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tweeted that his termination is “motivated by ill-will.”

She added “Government motivated by a hate agenda, is doing all this to harass them. But the government should keep in mind that it is not above the constitution.” 

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