Overview

• A municipal probe found 15 doctors siphoned off Rs 1.87 crore from 65 clinical trials at VS General Hospital between 2021 and 2025
• Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has issued recovery notices to implicated doctors, with five already repaying portions of the misappropriated funds
• Nearly all ongoing and proposed trials have been suspended or cancelled, leaving just one study active under heightened scrutiny
• The Drugs Controller General of India conducted a parallel inquiry and confirmed administrative and financial regulations were breached during the trials
• VS Hospital will pause new research until it establishes its own ethics committee, implements standard operating procedures and secures permissions from the DCGI