Police on Wednesday raided a private clinic and busted a suspected illegal human organ trading racket and recovered the kidney of a woman who was operated on there.
The clinic located on Saidpur Road belonged to Dr. Fazal Elahi who is a retired doctor from the District Headquarter Hospital. It was established while he was still serving at the hospital, and patients who could not afford treatment at the hospital were referred to the clinic. The clinic was registered and had an operation theatre.
The woman had gone to the hospital to have a kidney stone removed, after which she developed an infection. Later, when she consulted another doctor over the infection and underwent several tests, it was revealed to their shock that one of her kidneys was missing. According to her family members, the surgeon conducted three separate operations in the span of ten hours to remove the stone from her kidney.
Her son, Afzal Wahab, has registered a report at Bani police station against the surgeon and the staff of the clinic. Despite the FIR, no arrests were made for at least five hours after it was lodged. Later, the police raided the clinic and took the dispenser under custody.
The woman’s son told newsmen that the operation was conducted at a cost of Rs. 60,000. He disclosed that the second kidney of his mother is also not working and she is under intensive care at another hospital.