Dhaka: A Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) mobile court in a drive on Wednesday fined Japan Bangladesh Friendship Hospital Tk 11.50 lakh for various irregularities, including an outrageous act of pretending to continue treatment of a dead child.

During the drive, the elite force found that the hospital still kept a child, aged one year and four months, in the NICU showing him alive although he was dead, and was charging his family in the name of his treatment, according to a UNB report.

Besides, the mobile court found that treatment was being provided by unskilled doctors to children while the diagnostic centre and pathological lab, and OT facilities were not up to the standard.

Sources at the RAB-2 battalion headquarters said a team of the unit, led by its deputy director Didarul Alam, along with executive magistrate Mohammad Helal Uddin conducted the drive at the hospital in the city’s Jigatala area around 12:30pm.

Later, the magistrate fined six officials of the hospital Tk 11.50 lakh, in default.

Representatives of the Directorate General of Health Services and Directorate General of Drug Administration were present during the drive.