The suspended Gorakhpur pediatrician has now approached the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to help him in the revocation of his suspension.

The pediatrician, who was recently absolved of charges under the National Security Act (NSA), has said that despite getting a clean chit from the court and there being no evidence of medical negligence or corruption found against him in the nine probes conducted by the government, he remains suspended for the third year now. The pediatrician was suspended in August 2017, following the death of around 60 children in the BRD Medical College due to disruption in oxygen supply. However, other doctors accused in the BRD oxygen tragedy had been reinstated.

The IMA Secretary General told reporters that the association had written a letter to the Prime Minister last year, too, in this regard as this is a matter of profession. "The matter is connected to the state government, we have asked our state body to take a call and approach the UP Chief Minister for his reinstatement as he has been acquitted from all the charges," the IMA Secretary General said. "Even though the Supreme Court of India says that suspension should not be more than 90 days, I have been under suspension for 1,155 days since August 22 after the BRD oxygen tragedy," the pediatrician said in his letter to the IMA.

Even after being absolved of the charges, the state government initiated another inquiry and suspended him again. "I was suspended for a second time. But, my earlier suspension was not revoked. How could someone be suspended twice?" he asked. The pediatrician claimed that he had written 25 letters to the UP government requesting them to allow him to work as a 'Corona warrior' but never got a response. "They are neither revoking my suspension nor relieving me from my job," he said. "They have even been creating administrative hurdles whenever I have tried to serve the country voluntarily. I was not allowed to visit Kerala in 2018 during the Nipah virus outbreak by the UP government. They issued a notice to me that I could not serve in another state as I was still associated with the government," he said.