My staff, docs asked to quit, alleges Trehan

Reputed cardiologist Naresh Trehan has alleged that the Fortis Healthcare management has asked his personal staff and some doctors who worked closely with him at Escorts Heart and Research Centre (EHRC) to put in their papers.

This includes Dr Yatin Mehta, director of EHRC's department of cardiac anaesthesiology and critical care.

Trehan had been allowed by the Delhi High Court on Saturday to carry out his duties after Fortis Healthcare, which recently bought EHRC from the Delhi-based Nanda family, sacked him as executive director of the organisation on Friday evening.

Shivender M Singh, joint managing director of Fortis Healthcare, denied these allegations.

"We have not sacked any physician. We have sacked the person who heads the business, who happens to be a doctor. Every other physician can rest assured that we do not intend to sack anyone. They are our assets," he said. Mehta, he added, has been transferred to another hospital.

However, Singh admitted, "Non-physicians who were part of Trehan's team and fully involved in his Medi-City project have been asked to leave".