Quack brothers kill boy during botched surgery

PRAYAGRAJ: Draped in white coats and wielding scalpels, two brothers with only school-level education carved out roles as surgeons in UP's Kaushambi, performing operations inside a self-run hospital where no licensed doctor was in sight. Their bravado ended in tragedy when a six-year-old boy died after they removed a surgical rod from his leg - a procedure they had no legal or medical right to attempt.

Vikas Kumar, 26, and Vishesh Kumar, 25, were arrested Sunday evening after investigation into the March death of the child. The boy's father Ram Asre of Siriyawa Kala village had filed an FIR on March 16, accusing the duo of causing his son's death through reckless treatment in a facility masquerading as a hospital.

Anmol Hospital operated for nearly four years on Charwa-Manauri road.
Med facility was sealed last year, but it resumed ops

The facility's registration was in the name of the brothers' elder sibling Sanjay Kumar, a farmer with no medical background. Health authorities sealed it in July last year, but the facility resumed operations.

The boy had earlier undergone legitimate surgery at a different hospital after suffering a leg fracture. But when time came to remove the implanted rod, his family returned to the local facility - unaware it was run by two men with class 12 education who never went to medical school. The brothers allegedly promised to arrange for a qualified surgeon but chose instead to perform the operation themselves. When the boy's condition deteriorated, one of the imposters rushed him to another hospital, but he died.

The brothers confessed during police interrogation that money motivated their decision to conduct the surgery without expert help.