Dr Ketan Desai, who is facing corruption charges, could head World Medical Association. The former president of the Medical Council of India, which regulates the country’s medical colleges, stood before a judge last week in a dingy courthouse in Lucknow. For several years, Dr. Ketan Desai has been facing allegations that he conspired in 2009 to have the Medical Council recommend that a private medical college be allowed to add more students. The Lucknow case, which is scheduled to resume Aug.
20, isn’t Desai’s only legal problem. He also faces charges in a separate criminal case in New Delhi. Prosecutors there allege he was involved in a conspiracy in 2010 to obtain a 20 million rupee bribe – about $450,000 at the time – in return for having the Medical Council recommend allowing another school to expand its student body. Desai, who denies the allegations in both legal cases, no longer…
