21May/19

Private hospitals in Vizag under scanner over suspicions of illegal kidney racket – The News Minute

Private hospitals in Vizag under scanner over suspicions of illegal kidney racket  The News Minute

What started as an investigation into the illegal sale of a kidney in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam has panned into a district wide search for evidence of a potential organ trafficking racket. Last Saturday, Visakhapatnam District Collector K Bhaskar ordered the District Medical and Health Officer (DMHO) to shut down Sraddha Hospital in the city, after a committee found several discrepancies in the records of kidney transplants conducted at the private hospital. A three-member-committee comprising of District Medical and Health Officer Dr S Tirupathi Rao, District Coordinator for Hospital …