Private Hospital sealed for illegal kidney transplantation
Hospital Sealed
Hyderabad: An illegal kidney transplant racket was busted at Alkananda Multi-Speciality Hospital in Rangareddy District of Hyderabad. The hospital’s managing director, along with other staff members, have been arrested for allegedly luring kidney donors from other states and bringing in external doctors to carry out the transplants.
Health and police authorities in Hyderabad on Tuesday, January 21, sealed a private hospital after busting an alleged kidney transplantation racket and arrested its managing director and other employees.
According to an IANS report, Officials of Rachakonda police and the Department of Medical and Health conducted searches at Alkananda Multi-Speciality Hospital following complaints that the hospital was carrying out kidney transplants without mandatory permissions.
The hospital authorities were found to be allegedly luring kidney donors from other states and also calling doctors from outside the state to perform the transplants. They were making huge money through this racket.
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