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PATIALA: In a bid to counter illegal sex-determination and female foeticide, a team of doctors from the Haryana health department on Wednesday conducted a raid at a private hospital in Bahadurgarh town of Patiala district. “The hospital is not authorized and registered to carry out procedures related to the medical termination of pregnancy. A pregnant decoy patient was sent to the hospital and she met the doctors there. The team had received reports of illegal sex-determination being carried out at the centre.Informing their counterparts in Patiala, the team led by Dr Neelam Kakkar, deputy civil surgeon of Kaithal district, conducted the raid at Vadi hospital on Patiala-Ghanaur Road near Bahadurgarh. Health officers from Patiala also assisted the Haryana team in the raid.The health team also raided the house of a woman doctor, who runs the hospital, at an urban estate in Patiala, and allegedly recovered equipment used in sex-determination, foetus Doppler and abortion pills..