BA HAWA LNAGAR: Two of the four quacks, who performed a surgery on a female patient at a private hospital at Hussainabad Chowk three days ago, were arrested on Saturday.

The FIR registered on the complaint of the deputy district health officer with B-Division police on July 24 stated that during a visit to Zubaida Naik Hospital, Hussainabad Chowk, the health department team found a number of patients in different rooms who had undergone C-sections.

On entering the operating theatre, the team saw four persons in doctors` uniform operating on a patient. They could not present their licences or certificates and admitted that they were not qualified doctors but werehired by hospital owner, Aslam Hayat, to perform surgeries.

According to the FIR, there was no qualified doctor posted in the hospital. Aslam also did not have any degree or licence. The case was registered against five people, including Aslam, who fled the hospital. Two of them had been arrested.

According to health sources, the illegal hospital had been sealed and all the patients were shifted to the DHQ hospital by Rescue 1122.

The sources said the hospital had been operational for about 15 years and it had been raided and sealed several times by the health department in the past but it would get desealed after paying a small fine.

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