PG seat allocation under scanner in MYH:MLC entry in surgery dept raises questions in suspicious death of businessman’s son in Goa

The action taken by Goa Police, who arrived to collect blood samples from youths from Indore who were present with a businessman’s son after he died in Goa, has brought the MYH system into question. Recently, during sampling, despite it being a medico-legal case, the entire procedure was conducted under the General Surgery department instead of Emergency Medicine. It was during this time that it came to light that emergency patients were being registered in surgery to inflate patient numbers. In a record dated April 12, 2026, at 3:37 PM, the case is listed as MLC, but the department entered was ‘General Surgery’. Shift to surgery according to clinical condition Dr. Arvind Shukla, Head of Surgery Department, MYH, says, Some patients arriving in casualty are shifted to surgery based on their clinical condition. Some cases belong to other departments but are admitted to surgery due to management needs and circumstances. Three-year record: patients increased, but surgeries decreased Efforts to increase surgery data Hospital records show operations decreased to 86841 in 2025, while OPD remained over 1.2 million. According to departmental input, surgical patient volume has decreased by 20 to 40 percent. In such a situation, it has come to light that non-surgical patients coming to the casualty are also being shifted to surgery. The rule states Entry and sampling of such cases are done under emergency medicine. Many similar cases are being registered in surgery daily. In fact, after the Ayushman Yojana, the number of patients in the department has decreased by 20 to 40 percent. Bhaskar insight