Naresh Trehan removed as Escorts Heart Institute executive director
19 May 2007
Mumbai:
Dr Naresh Trehan has been removed from the post of executive
director of the Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre
Ltd (EHIRCL) by its management Fortis Healtcare Ltd.
The management, however, said Dr Trehan bid adieu to concentrate
on his Medicity Business Venture.
Dr Trehan has been associated with Escorts Heart Institute
for over 20 years - from the inception of the idea to
its execution - and, over the years, helped to become
the premier cardiac hospital in the country. An exceptional
Indian venture, EHIRCL led by Dr Trehan has, over the
past two decades, been instrumental in training and incubating
some of the leading cardiac surgeons & cardiologists,
and today boasts of an over 250-strong medical faculty,
which today is the largest in the country.
The
faculty and their supporting teams provide enormous clinical
depth to support the institution in serving around one
lakh patients every year from all over India and the world.
An excellent surgeon and an able administrator with an
exceptional business sense, Dr Trehan. has built up a
good clinical team that took care of patients.
His
primary focus for the past few years has been on the business
side of his role and the development of newer Escorts
hospitals at Amritsar, Raipur, Jaipur and the various
heart command centers.
Over the past 18 months, Dr Trehan has been increasingly
focused on his personally promoted project - the Rs1,000
crore Medicity at Gurgaon. He now leaves EHIRCL to concentrate
on this venture. He continues to be a 10 per cent shareholder
in EHIRCL.
Fortis'' management, meanwhile said it has filed a case
of vandalism against cardiologist Naresh Trehan, alleging
that he forcibly entered the Escorts Heart Institute and
Research Centre from where he was removed.
"Yes, we have filed a case against Trehan in Okhla police station for what he did in the morning," Fortis managing director Shivinder Mohan Singh said.
The police, however, said it had received no such complaint as of 1420 hrs.
Trehan, who was unceremoniously removed from his administrative post as well as from the panel of doctors by the Fortis management, was prevented from entering the hospital premises by security guards, reports said.
