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Subject: Cruelty and Negligence leads to the death of innocence
Respected Sir / Madam,
I am Pratha Narang, a 19-year old girl living in Mumbai, seeking immediate help from your esteemed organization.
There is a so-called “Veterinary doctor” in Pune, Maharashtra, who is practicing doctorate without being a certified doctor.
Located in Shivaji Nagar and going by the name “Dr. Bhondve”, he has only taken lives of innocent animals and not saved any. He has not obtained a degree in the field of veterinary. After cross-questioning by me, he admitted, he has only done a 2-year Diploma in Veterinary Science at Gokhalenagar, Pune.
We were unaware about his ‘dubious qualifications’ of not being a doctor. As a result, recently, my cousin, Ms Dipali Gupta’s puppy called Kiara, died due to ill-treatment by this so-called “Doctor”.
On June 13, 2011, our little puppy Kiara was vomiting and had loose motions containing spotting of blood. The puppy was residing in a village called Kamshet, close to Lonavala. She was a Golden Brown American Cocker Spaniel who was about 45-days old.
Kiara was pretty cheerful and playing around even after vomits and motions. On seeing her play with abandon, no one could say, she was unwell.
Due to her ill-health, we first rushed her to a local doctor, who did not reach up to our expectations of treating the puppy.
So we then hurried to Pune to Mr Bhondve’s ‘Clinic’ at Shivaji Nagar. He has been known to take care of my cousin Dipali Gupta’s farm dogs. Mr Bhondve has a small clinic, with a little board, which says ‘Adarsh Pets Clinic’ with another name of a doctor, Dr. Randhir Patil, and with a registration number noted as MVC.REG.NO.4955(I) and also a qualification that says “Veterinary Surgeon”.
But Dr. Randhir Patil was unavailable and did not treat the dog. We were not informed whether Mr Bhondve was a doctor or not.
The puppy was kept in horrible conditions which have been photographed. Moreover, the place is extremely unhygienic.
On June 13, after admitting the puppy earlier, later at 4pm, I reached the said clinic, where to my surprise, the shutters were down. I immediately called Mr Bhondve, as to know where the puppy was kept. He explained that “the puppy was critical and under the observation of his assistant at the clinic”. I then told him, I was standing right outside his clinic, and that the shutters were down. He insisted his assistant was taking care of it and hung up the call in haste. He called me back after a few minutes, saying his assistant had gone out for lunch.
After about 20 minutes, his assistant arrived, but with no keys of the locked shutter and said, he was out for lunch at 4.10pm (inspite of the fact that we were earlier told that their lunch time was in the earlier afternoon). We knew this, as that afternoon, we had reached at 12.45pm and, Mr Bhondve had refused to give Kiara saline, “until their lunch time was not over”.
Finally, Mr. Bhondve reached the location in about 45 minutes since the time we called him. Until this time, the puppy was locked inside the clinic with no ventilation at all, caged in a small basket in the clinic. She had passed urine in the basket and was seated in the same basket for over hours. When questioned, as to why she was trapped without any ventilation source, Mr Bhondve said, it was because she had “104 degrees fever”. When immediately we checked, the fever was actually 93 degrees, which is below normal.
The puppy was stinking, shivering, panting and whining. We were told the puppy has Gastronomy and Distemper and that the infection would leave the body via urine. But the puppy was kept in the basket, and was trapped in the urine she had passed for hours.
The doctor said Intervenes treatment was given. But we found that no hair of the puppy shaved to put in the needle.
I requested Mr Bhondve to write down the treatment he gave the puppy. He did. The puppy was in his clinic till June 15, but continuously deteriorating in health and in great agony.
Finally on June 15, I shifted the puppy to another doctor located in Kothrud to a clinic known as Pet Cover. The doctor there, Dr. Vinay Gohre, is a reputed doctor. As I showed him the treatment written by Mr Bhondve, he promptly said, “This is written, but I do not know if he (Mr Bhondve) has actually implied this treatment on her, as the puppy in a very bad condition. Her back hinds are not functioning anymore.’’
Dr Vinay also said that little Kiara was completely dehydrated and the reason to dehydration could have been that either the saline was not given on time, or not given at all.
Dr Vinay tried his level best to save the Kiara until midnight. But she died the same evening dated June 15, 2011 at 11.30pm at Dr Vinay’s residence.
I request you to look into the matter.
I also would like to inform you that my friend Ms Dipali Gupta had over 15 dogs, 11 Rabbits, 14 Pigeons, 1 Horse (Race Horse) at their Orphanage called Vidyavati Charitable Trust, at Kamshet. These were all looked after by the same Mr Bhondve. Out of all these, only one dog has survived in the past 3 years.
Yes, you got it right – 14 dogs, 11 rabbits, 4 pigeons and 1 Horse (Race Horse) died in the span of 3 years under Mr Bhondve’s ‘care’ (?).
I am awaiting a favourable response and hoping not to see another life being sacrificed to carelessness or money-making by this seemingly fraud person working with a clinic, in the garb of a doctor.
Thanking you in anticipation,
Yours truly,
Pratha Narang
