Virginity operations may have been paid for by tax dollars

The doctor who runs the Vårby Care clinic in Stockholm has invoiced Region Stockholm for over 30 million in the past five years.

She now has to pay back part of that money, because the region terminated the contract and reported the doctor to the police.

They have also reported her to the Care and Care Inspectorate, but this was not due to "virginity operations" but to patient uncertainty and financial fraud.

- This is very serious, they have reported more patients than they have met and there were also errors in the handling of the patients, says Lena Hanberg.

8 out of 10 patient calls were wrong

The audit from the region showed that the clinic made mistakes in its remote contacts with patients.

Out of 365 care contacts, 85 were completely missing medical records, and in a total of 86 percent the clinic had charged the region on incorrect grounds.

Over 2 million had been wrongly charged according to the region, which has now demanded the money back.

SVT Nyheter's investigation recently showed that the doctor also secretly performs so-called "virginity operations" on the genitals of women exposed to honor.

SVT's reporter was offered an operation for SEK 10,000. 

Could have been tax money

There was nothing in the region's audit that showed that it was about "virginity operations", but it may still have been partly what people paid for, says Lena Hanberg. 

- It is difficult if you perform procedures that you do not record and then you charge for something else, it is impossible to detect.

Of course it's not okay, of course it's not okay.

The doctor tells SVT that she does this to save the lives of women who may be murdered by their family if they do not bleed on their wedding night.

She also tipped our reporter about another solution to get a bleed.  

- You get to put fresh chicken liver in the vagina to make sure that blood flows before he sleeps with you, she said. 

- We have a health and medical care law that says that the care provided must be evidence-based and medically justified, and that applies to all care providers, and if you tinker with things that are not, of course we distance ourselves from it, it's not okay, says Lena Hanberg.