A mobile court yesterday busted an illegal hospital and sealed off it in the capital’s Rayerbagh area.
After sealing off the hospital, the mobile court also jailed two employees of the hospital.
The mobile court led by Executive Magistrate AHM Anwar Pasha conducted a drive at Salema Hospital and Lab located at Rayerbagh.
During the drive, the mobile court found that a couple who did not have medical degree has been running the hospital.
The mobile court sentenced ASM Rabiul Awal, 43, and his wife Momtaz Begum, 36, to two years of imprisonment and fined Tk1 lakh each.
Fake nurse Sonia Akhter, 22, and a helper Lutfunnahar Begum, 36, were fined Tk1 lakh each by the mobile court.
The four convicted will have to serve three months behind the bar if they fail to pay fines, said the executive magistrate.
“The hospital had no license. The couple was caught while they were treating patients.. The nurses and technicians there are also fake. We could nab two of them,” he said.
The mobile court during the drive found that Rabiul was dressing up the abdomen of one Hosne Ara who had a surgery a few days back from the hospital. There was an infection in her abdomen as the operation was conducted wrongly, said the magistrate.
Citing Hosne Ara, mobile court sources said she had gone to Matoail Shishu Hospital for a surgery, but brokers had allured her saying that she would get treatment in cheaper rate if she comes to the hospital.
Another patient Parvez Hossain Dipu went to the hospital with his broken hand. The fake doctors were preparing for a surgery in his hand when the law enforcers’ team arrived there, he said.
“We have also found some pregnant women who came here for
follow-up medical check up,” the magistrate said.
The hospital has 27 beds. According to the law, a 27-bed hospital should have at least three doctors and six nurses.
“During interrogation, Momtaz claimed that she had nursing training form a hospital, but could not produce any document. Nurse Sonia is almost illiterate,” he said.
Major Towfiqul Bari of RAB 10 said they were collecting information of some other fake hospitals in the area and will conduct drives soon.
Dr Swapan Kumar Topadar, a representative from the Directorate General of Health, was present during the drive.
