India: Illegal hospitals sealed by health officials in raid
timesofindia.com on December 27, 2011 reported that the death of an infant due to an alleged faulty surgery at an illegal hospital in the city, seems to have jolted the district administration out of its slumber, if the crackdown on illegal clinics and nursing homes on Monday is anything to go by. A team of district health officials raided a few nursing homes in the city and sealed two health care centres – Sukanya hospital at Badambadi and Highway nursing home located at Sikharpur area – that were running illegally in the city since the past few years. The facilities were unregistered and functioning in the city without a valid license. The sealed units had not even applied for registration under the Clinical Establishments Act, said health officials.
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