In addition, two doctors are taking patients to other countries for the surgery.

"Yesterday I took patients from one place to another," he said.

It was in 1931 that the hospital began taking private patients for $4 per week.

"Our members cannot decline to take patients to the hospital of their choice," he said.

"You can't take patients out of the hospital without authorization," said the doctor.

As a result, the clinic stopped taking most new patients earlier this year.

Still, he completed his training and began taking patients in for analysis.

But no specialist would see her, because they have stopped taking new patients as part of a growing protest against Government regulations.

They may take private patients first, leaving Medicaid people at the bottom of the waiting list.

Instead he has stopped taking new patients and will retire at the end of the year.