UP Doctor Implanted Sub-Standard Pacemakers, Over 200 Patients Affected: Cops

The doctor also allegedly charged as high as nine times the cost of a standard pacemaker.

A cardiologist from a government hospital in Uttar Pradesh, who prioritised money over people's health and allegedly implanted sub-standard pacemakers in his patients while charging as much as nine times the cost of a standard one, has been arrested. Police sources said at least 200 people have been adversely affected by the pacemakers that had been implanted by the doctor.

Dr Sameer Saraf, a cardiologist at Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences, Saifai, was arrested on Thursday, but complaints against him had surfaced much earlier, when the wife of a lawyer had died after a low-grade pacemaker had allegedly been implanted by the doctor.

Dr Saraf implanted pacemakers in 600 patients and the initial police investigation shows that at least 200 of them were sub-standard.