Delhi: Surgery on wrong foot, medical body suspends 2 doctors for 6 months

The Delhi Medical Council (DMC) has barred two doctors from practising for six months after finding them guilty of performing surgery on the wrong foot of a 24-year-old man. The DMC’s disciplinary panel has recommended removal of the names of Dr Ashwani Maichand, consultant orthopaedics, and Dr Rahul Kakran, associate consultant orthopaedics, from the council’s state medical register for 180 days.