Cuttack kidney racket: Vizag top doctor held

By SNV Sudhir

Visakhapatnam, June 17, 2014:  The infamous Odisha illegal kidney sale racket seems to have links to Vizag. Odisha cops with the help of local police, here on Tuesday have arrested one of the directors of famous corporate hospital in the city- Seven Hills hospital, Dr N Prabhakar Babu for allowing the kidney transplantation at the hospital.

Cuttack police last month busted an illegal kidney sale racket where mediators have been luring members from the poor families for organ donation bypassing the stipulated norms of Odisha’s State Authorisation Committee on Human Organ Transplant.

It is learnt that the racket came to light when a woman victim who gave kidney lodged a complaint with Cuttack police that she was paid paltry some while she was promised around Rs 10lakh and was duped. According to police sources, the alleged kidney transplantation was done at city’s Seven Hills hospital and its medical director, N Prabhakar Babu was said to be responsible for the operation.

To avoid the possible arrest, Prabhakar said to have got himself admitted at King George Hospital (KGH) complaining chest pain, four day ago. However, a special police team from Cuttack had taken him into custody after a team of doctors certified he was fit.

He was arrested under 320B, 18, 368, 471 and 420 sections of IPC for performing the organ transplantation for not verifying the facts.

 Meanwhile, hospital representatives said that, they have performed operation after they were shown all the necessary documents that the kidney donor and the patient are both related to each other.