Yet Desai’s attending the conference would be clear only on October 13, when the three-day event begins in Vancouver.“I understand that Desai may be attending the WMA meeting next week,” Nigel Duncan, a UK-based public relations official who represent the WMA—a global body of doctors that promote ethical medical practices—told Deccan Herald.
The MCI’s suspension was handed over to Desai on Saturday. In the letter, the board said: “Permission granted to you to practice medicine be suspended during the pendency of appeal/complaint with the Board of Governors in supersession of Medical Council of India.”