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The man, suspected to be Narendra Vikramaditya Yadav, fled after being confronted. Authorities are now probing the hospital's failure to verify his credentials. BHOPAL: The man who passed himself off as a UK-based heart specialist and is now under the scanner for at least seven deaths in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh district reportedly fled when confronted by families of the deceased.
When the family of 58-year-old Rahisa Begum demanded to know why she died just hours after a heart surgery in January, the man who had operated on her, identifying himself as Dr N John Camm, fled the hospital premises. “He got into his car and just drove away,” her son Nabi recounted. Rahisa is one of seven patients who died after undergoing heart surgeries at Mission Hospital in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh district between December 2024 and February 2025.
A National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) team is expected to visit Damoh’s Mission Hospital on Monday as questions mount over how the facility allowed ‘Dr N John Camm’ to operate without verifying his identity or credentials. The hospital, now at the centre of a growing controversy, allowed him to perform over a dozen heart surgeries.Seven of those patients died during or shortly after the procedures Operated for ‘gas’, died after surgery Among the victims was 62-year-old Mangal Singh, admitted to the hospital in early February with symptoms his family believed were due to gas.
His son, Jitendra Singh, said the hospital recommended an angiography followed by heart surgery. But his father died shortly after the operation. “Doctors were not available before or after surgery.
An expensive injection ordered by the doctor wasn’t even administered. And when we demanded a postmortem, we were told the surgery was already done, and we should take the body home,” Jitendra alleged. No reports, no evidence just Rs 50,000 bills In another case, Asaram, a patient from the region, was brought to Mission Hospital on January 31 with chest discomfort.
The hospital demanded Rs 50,000 for immediate treatment, and family members say they were told an angiography was done. However, no reports or videos were shared with them. Sensing something was wrong, they shifted him to Jabalpur Medical College — where he recovered without needing surgery.
District authorities say ‘Dr Camm’ had performed around 15 surgeries over two-and-a-half months. Seven of those patients are now dead. A preliminary inquiry by Damoh chief medical and health officer Dr Mukesh Jain and district health officer Dr Vikram Chauhan has already been submitted to the collector.
Trail of ‘fake doctor’ The hospital’s failure to verify the doctor’s identity before allowing him to conduct major surgeries has raised serious concerns. While hospital officials have remained unreachable, families allege they were lured with false assurances and left with no accountability once things went wrong. The doctor introduced himself as “Dr N John Camm”, claiming to have trained under the renowned cardiologist Prof A John Camm in the UK.
But multiple inconsistencies in his credentials began surfacing online. In fact, the name “Prof N John Camm” had surfaced in 2023 on a Twitter account that tagged Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, prompting scepticism about its authenticity. Sources say the man may actually be Narendra Vikramaditya Yadav, previously arrested in Telangana in a cheating case.
He has claimed in the past to have completed his MBBS from the University of North Bengal in 1996 and MRCP from St George’s Hospital, London, in 2001. FIR registered; manhunt on Madhya Pradesh Police have booked a man posing as a UK-trained cardiologist, Dr Narendra John Camm, for the alleged death of seven patients at a missionary hospital in Damoh. The accused is believed to be Narendra Vikramaditya Yadav, who impersonated renowned UK cardiologist Prof.
John Camm to conduct unauthorized angiographies and angioplasties. A case was registered late Sunday under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, following a complaint by CMHO MK Jain, who stated the accused had no valid medical registration. A district medical team found his documents suspicious, and the hospital later confirmed he had fled.
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