Retired nurse held in Kurukshetra for illegally performing MTP procedure

Tribune News Service

Kurukshetra, June 25

A team of Health Department, Kurukshetra, has held a retired staff nurse for illegally performing MTP procedures in Shahabad. The accused has been identified as Maya Devi, a resident of Shahabad. As per the information, the Health Department got a tip-off that a woman in Shahabad performed medical termination of pregnancy at a private hospital on Ladwa road.

After getting information of the illegal activity, the Health Department arranged a decoy woman and a deal was struck for Rs 5,000. On Thursday, the health officials conducted a raid and the woman was arrested. The person who is running the hospital claimed that he was not aware of any such activity being conducted at the hospital. A health official said the woman was held in 2014 for the same offence. The woman is not qualified to perform MTP procedure.

Civil Surgeon, Kurukshetra, Sant Lal Verma said, “The MTP procedure can be performed only at authorised centres and that too by trained gynaecologists. The woman who has been arrested can’t perform the MTP procedure. The person running the hospital claimed that he was unaware of any such activity at the hospital which is strange and not possible. We have filed a complaint at the Shahabad police station and the matter is being investigated.” A case has been registered. The Shahabad SHO said, “The accused was sent her to judicial custody.”