Philippines: Secret hospitals giving criminals new faces shut

The Philippine hospitals are equipped with hair transplant tools and dental implants.

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Two such illegal hospitals could be shut down "in the coming weeks" after police raided the first one in Manila's southern suburbs in May, a police spokesman told the BBC.

Hair transplant tools, dental implants and skin whitening IV drips were seized from the hospital in Pasay City two months ago.

"You can create an entirely new person out of those," said Winston John Casio, a spokesman for the Presidential Anti-Organised Crime Commission (PAOCC).

The two illegal hospitals under surveillance are believed to be four times larger than the one in Pasay, authorities said.

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