JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – When President Joe Biden commuted the prison terms of hundreds of so-called “non-violent” offenders last week, he reopened an old wound for one Mississippi family. The family is speaking out after a convicted oncologist, who they said was responsible for a loved one’s death, was freed from prison by the president.

Frances Hand said her father would have been 85-years-old this year had he not lost his life in 2011 due to the lack of proper care by Dr. Meera Sachdeva.

“I told him that it was just the type of chemo. It was that he wouldn’t lose his hair. To me, that meant they knew they were watering it down,” Hand said.

The Summit physician was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2012 after she pled guilty to charges of defrauding Medicare. The FBI said Sachdeva submitted false claims for chemotherapy services and diluted her patients’ chemotherapy drugs.

“But, you know, the after-effects of cancer, they suffered from the pain of it, because they weren’t given the proper chemo. So, they hurt, and my dad hurt. And he got sick, and he died while he was still under her care,” said Hand.

On Thursday, Biden commuted Sachdeva’s prison sentenced. Hand said she hopes President-elect Donald Trump will prevent such a thing from ever happening again.

“My hope is that this new administration will do better at watching how much medication she was reporting that she was giving the proper amount of medication. She was reporting to Medicare. But I think we need more oversight checks that we have people there that are watching,” Hand stated.

WJTV 12 News reached out to the attorney leading a class action lawsuit against Sachdeva, as well as the Biden administration. We are waiting to hear back.