ISLAMABAD, July 26: Over 300 childless    persons have narrated their woes to    the chief commissioner’s office investigating    a dubious doctor for robbing    them of millions in the name of making    them fertile, Dawn has learnt.    Interestingly, only 60 of them recorded    their statements openly with the    office, without any inhibitions.

The rest    felt so ashamed of willingly falling for    the hocus pocus of the “fertility expert”    that they asked their stories be    kept secret, according to sources in the    office.

Police had raided the fertility clinic    on July 20 and arrested the “specialist    doctor” and his three alleged accomplices    for exploiting childless couples’ desire    to have children and ruining their    health in the process.

Police said the clinic was run by a fake    doctor and his accomplices, who had duped    and harmed more than 20 couples    by their so-called “synchronised fertility    with hormonal balancing” treatment.

First advertised as “American    Hospital”, the clinic was later named    “Fertility and Men`s Power Hospital”,    police said.

“Over 300 complainants, couples and    singles, have approached the commissioner    office when they learnt through    media that the clinic was dubious,” an    official of the ICT administration, requesting    anonymity, said. “Several were    in tears as they recorded statements.”

Almost over 60 of them recorded    “open statements” while the rest did not    want to disclose their identities, the official    said.    “We were not expecting that such a    large number of people would turn up    for recording their statements.

But they    have come forward and ready to stand as    witness in court,” the official said.    After recording statement, Talat    Mehmood from Fatehjang told Dawn    that he visited the clinic two years. “I    was assured that I would become father    after the treatment but I didn’t. I had    paid Rs150,000 in advance.”

He said he    was shattered when he learnt the clinic    was dubious.

According to a health official who is    assisting the police in the probe, initial    laboratory reports of several drugs recommended    by the clinic were “injurious    to health and banned” in Pakistan.

“A case has been registered against    fake clinic managers under the Drug    Act. They were using banned drugs,” he    maintained.

The ICT administration official said    another case would be registered for using    and selling banned drugs without    getting licence and approval from the    local administration’s health department.

Regarding the degree of the doctor    running the clinic, he said they had already    written to Pakistan Medical and    Dental Council for its verification.