Newborn dies after 'doctors' cut off his genitals to prove infant a girl in Ranchi
Newborn dies after 'doctors' cut off his genitals to prove infant a girl in Ranchi
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RANCHI: Following Shocking offence, State health secretary Nidhi Khare on Thursday asked the Chatra civil surgeon to arrest two doctors in Itkhori block as they allegedly severed the genitals of a newborn boy leading to the child’s death.

As TOI reported the newborn took his last breath at Om Clinic on Tuesday night when eight-month pregnant Gudia Devi, a resident of of Itkhori’s Jai Prakash Nagar in Chatra district, approximately 110km from here, admitted for a check-up.

Chatra police said in a bid to make more money from the patient, the “accused doctors" at the clinic told they would have to perform ultrasound test and caesarian to deliver the child. After carried out the fake test they said to parents that the child was female. But when Devi gave birth to a boy, the two doctors allegedly cut off his genitals and said to the mother that a deformed girl child was born and died soon after.

Disappointed with the answer, the parents filed a complaint on Wednesday morning. Police said by the time they arrived the clinic, the “two doctors" had gone missing. A case has been filed under Section 302 of IPC in this links .Police has started raids to book the accused.

State health secretary Khare asked the Chatra civil surgeon to nab the duo under the Clinical Establishments Act, Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPDNT) Act and the Medical Practitioner Act. Worth mention here It is not confirmed that whether the duo were certified doctors or quacks.

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