– as Health Ministry begins probe into teen’s deathThe Ministry of Health has launched an investigation into the death of 18-year-old Karen Bahdal from a botched and illegally performed abortion at a doctor’s ‘bottom house’ clinic.A source from the Health Ministry confirmed this yesterday but declined to elaborate. Police are also investigating the matter but are yet to locate the doctor, who has closed his clinic and has not reported to the Prasad’s Hospital, where he holds a senior position.A police source said that detectives also checked at the physician’s home, and there are indications that he has moved out.Bahdal was laid to rest yesterday and relatives have vowed to do all they can to ensure that the physician is brought to face justice.Health officials have confirmed that the doctor is not among the physicians who are licensed to perform medical terminations.? He reportedly did the medical procedure on Bahdal in the bottom flat of a Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara residence.Hardai Ramroop,Cheap NFL Jerseys 2018, an aunt of Bahdal’s,NFL Jerseys China Wholesale, yesterday alleged that she also became seriously ill in April,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, 2011after the same doctor performed an abortion on her.Ms. Ramroop said that she was one month pregnant when she visited the clinic to have her abortion. She said that the clinic was “like a kitchen” and that a receptionist, rather than a nurse, assisted the physician.According to the aunt, she paid the physician $8,000 but did not receive a receipt. She alleged that she was not given any anesthetic, and the physician inserted an instrument in her.The woman alleged that she returned to the doctor’s clinic after a few days because she was in severe pain and was bleeding profusely. She said the physician gave her a few tablets but the pain and bleeding continued and she was forced to seek treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.According to the aunt, the GPHC staff who treated her said she had undergone an incomplete abortion. Ms. Ramroop said that the physician who had performed the botched termination subsequently refunded her money.She also claimed that the doctor returned the $8,000 Bahdal had given him after learning that the teen was gravely ill.“He gave back the money after I told him that she in ICU and she deh bad. He say he is always the bad one and people always going back to him for their money.”The aunt said that she had no idea that her niece was planning to have an abortion, and that she would certainly have stopped the teen from going to this physician.And a Health official told Kaieteur News yesterday that it is the Guyana Medical Council which registers physicians who are authorized to perform medical terminations. The official explained that these physicians have to renew their licenses annually,Cheap Jerseys From China, but many are not doing so.Kaieteur News understands that at present,Jerseys NFL Cheap, only about eight doctors who are registered to perform terminations have had their licenses renewed.This newspaper was told that the doctor under investigation was once among the physicians who were authorized to perform terminations. However, he has not been licensed to do so for about four years.Kaieteur News confirmed that the doctor had worked with other gynecologists at the GPHC for a number of years, but was not a registered gynecologist.Bahdal was reportedly four months pregnant when she had her abortion at the doctor’s clinic on December 23. She was admitted to the GPHC on December 24 after she began vomiting continuously and complaining of abdominal pains. An ultrasound revealed that there was fluid in her stomach and she was taken to the hospital’s operating theatre.Medical staff then observed that both the teen’s uterus and bowel were perforated, and had to perform surgery to repair the damage. But by then, fluids from her bowels had already leaked into her stomach,Wholesale Jerseys 2018, and peritonitis had developed.The teen’s condition worsened and she was taken to the Intensive Care Unit and placed on a ventilator. She died shortly after.A post mortem performed yesterday revealed that she died as a result of a perforated uterus and acute peritonitis.