March 5, 2008

The city business license inspectors have now closed a second clinic run by Dr. Dipak Desai, whose Shadow Lane endoscopy center was closed earlier due to a large hepatitis outbreak. 

The city’s notice includes this statement on the new closing: “willful failure to observe long accepted and mandated medical sanitary protocols.”

City Manager Gregory Rose said. “We are ordering this clinic to shut its doors until we can determine that they are operating in a safe and sanitary manner.” 

“Our primary concern is to protect the health and welfare of our residents,” City Manager Gregory Rose said. “We are ordering this clinic to shut its doors until we can determine that they are operating in a safe and sanitary manner.”

The clinic is affiliated with the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada, which potentially exposed 40,000 Nevadans to HIV and hepatitis strains B and C, according to health officials.

The notice also applies to any similar business operations at other locations in North Las Vegas,, pending review by the city’s business licensing authorities. For more information on  this please visit: http://resource4thepeople.com/medicalmalpractice/anesthesiaerrors.html