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Lawyers allege abuse of migrant women by gynecologist for Georgia ICE detention centerNBC News
Julia Ainsley and Jacob Soboroff and Daniella Silva
NBC NewsSeptember 15, 2020
The doctor, who three lawyers identified as Dr. Mahendra Amin, practicing in Douglas, Georgia, has continued to see women from the Irwin County Detention Center for the past several years despite complaints from his patients.
Amin was the subject of a Justice Department investigation in 2015 for making false claims to Medicaid and Medicare. As a result, he and other doctors involved paid $525,000 in a civil settlement, according to the Justice Department.
The lawyers identified the doctor after a whistleblower complaint to the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security was filed by Dawn Wooten, who worked as a nurse inside the facility. She said in there complaint that detainees were not getting COVID-19 tests and other needed medical care.
Wooten worked full time as a licensed practical nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, until being demoted in July.
Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/nurse-questions-medical-care-operations-122005045.html
It seems to be this person:
Dr. Mahendra G. Amin MD
Douglas, GA
Specialty / Subspecialties: Obstetrics & Gynecology / General Obstetrics & Gynecology
https://health.usnews.com/doctors/mahendra-amin-47492
This story is so disturbing...
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Nice.
wryter2000
(46,130 posts)Like the Third Reich do we have to get?
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,512 posts)Hekate
(91,005 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,499 posts)Where are all of these militia anti-government types who profess to be against government over-reach? Oh, they are not citizens so it is ok? Wrong color too I bet!
jimfields33
(16,098 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Tribalceltic
(1,000 posts)MontanaMama
(23,366 posts)and she said that the doctor had previously settled a lawsuit for Medicaid fraud. He should have lost his license THEN. Who is being billed for these procedures? It seems unlikely that these women would have Medicaid. How is this doctor being paid and who is overseeing this?
Lonestarblue
(10,155 posts)This mans medical license needs to be revoked immediately. He is performing operations on women who do not need them, do not want them, and arent even being told what theyre for. That should be illegal in any state, even a Republican one.
ffr
(22,677 posts)And fines and new lucrative government contracts for shady crooks who can afford to pay off half million dollar bills for their prior corruption.
Lock them up and promote the whistleblowers!
Volaris
(10,278 posts)A 'bad apple', as it were, and claim they the company running this concentration camp on behalf of the Trump Administration, take no responsibility whatsoever and it's a terrible mistake and we would NEVER condone such practices OF COURSE you should keep paying us for this vital service we provide the American Public
I'm gettin really fucking tired of being right all the goddamn time.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)I am in favor of completely restructuring our government -top to bottom, bottom to top. Nazi, fascist, authoritarian, criminal, assholes - that is simply not my thing.
Start the fuck over. I want no part of this type of country.
If true, we need an international tribunal. Massive punishment - banishment for those involved.
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)AdamGG
(1,298 posts)PatrickforO
(14,604 posts)When we walk out as a people into the light of day after being the darkness of the Trump 'administration,' there had better be some indictments, arrests and trials. And every single one of those immigrants need reparations, and those kids need to be reunited with their families no matter how hard it is or how expensive it is to trace them down.
And Trump had better be up on treason charges.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,116 posts)ecstatic
(32,782 posts)Every person involved!
Freedomofspeech
(4,229 posts)This is horrifying.