Secret hospitals offering criminals new faces

BBC :
Clandestine hospitals in the Philippines have been offering plastic surgery services to fugitives and scam centre workers to help them evade arrest, authorities say.
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.
Their clients allegedly include those from online casinos, who are working in the Philippines illegally, Mr Casio said.
The online casinos or Pogos (Philippine Online Gaming Operations) cater to players in mainland China, where gambling is illegal.
But police say Pogos have been used as cover for criminal activities such as telephone scams and human trafficking.