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No credentials, no anaesthesia: 3 arrested after bungled surgeries
Jan 10, 2012, 11:17 GMT
New Delhi - Three men accused of posing as doctors were arrested in India's eastern state of Bihar after allegedly conducting sterilization operations on 53 women in two hours, news reports said Tuesday.
The operations were performed in a field in the Araria district at the weekend without anaesthesia, the IANS news agency reported.
The three men were arrested Monday, and police said they were conducting raids to arrest the directors of the non-governmental organization the suspects claimed to be working for.
District police chief Shivdeep Lande told the IANS that the three men had put the lives of women in danger and distributed expired medicines.
Several women were hospitalized after developing complications after the procedures.
Lande said the group identified as the Jai Ambe Welfare Society had been organizing family-planning operations in the region and action would be initiated against the group.
Reports in the local media said it had promised poor village women 600 rupees (9 dollars) and free medicines if they came for family-planning operations.
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