Illegal clinics with ‘doc' shuttered
KUALA LUMPUR: For RM90, patients are treated by foreign 'doctors' at several illegal clinics in the Klang Valley. To avoid detection, these 'doctors' will only treat patients at night.
After a year of operations, their illicit activities came to an end when the Immigration Department raided the illegal clinics on Jalan Ipoh here as well as Sungai Buloh and Shah Alam in Selangor on Monday.
Immigration director-general Datuk Zakaria Shaaban said six foreigners, including a Pakistani man, were detained.
The raids followed two weeks of intelligence gathering and surveillance by authorities.
The department arrested the Pakistani man, who was posing as a doctor, along with three female Myanmar nationals and two other women from Pakistan and India, all aged between 23 and 57.
Zakaria said the Pakistani man was found to have overstayed.
One of the Myanmar nationals had a temporary work permit for foreign workers (PLKS) while another had a UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) card.
'The remaining foreigners did not have any travel documents or valid passes,' he said when contacted.
During the raid, officers seized several items, including a patient logbook, a clinic stamp, three foreign passports, mobile phones and uniforms for medical practitioners.
'We believe some of the other foreigners were working as medical assistants or nurses,' Zakaria added.
The syndicate would offer medical services, especially to foreigners. Each patient is charged about RM90 and payment for the illegal service can only be made online.
'The unlicensed doctors would perform medical checkups only at night.
'We believe they had been operating for about a year. All those detained were brought to the KLIA Immigration depot for further action,' he added.
Zakaria said a Malaysian man and a Filipina were also issued with notices to assist the Immigration Department in the investigations.
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