The state authorities should establish and act towards clinics run by quacks, the Karnataka Excessive Court docket said in a current order, including that such people “are endangering the lifetime of harmless rural individuals, by opening clinics in distant areas and hoodwinking them”.
The order, handed by Justice M Nagaprasanna final month, was not too long ago made out there. It said: “Such cases have grown exponentially, which has resulted in mushrooming of such clinics throughout, opened by the individuals projecting themselves to be Medical doctors. … it’s for the State to right away act, establish such clinics and pull the curtains down of these clinics, that are run by quacks just like the case at hand…”
The excessive courtroom made the observations in a case wherein the proprietor of a clinic in Mandya district, A Muralidharswamy, had approached it looking for an order to allow the registration of his clinic below the Karnataka Non-public Medical Institutions Act.
He said that he had secured a certificates from the Indian Board of Different Drugs and likewise had a diploma in Group Medical Providers.
Whereas contemplating the petition, the courtroom famous that Muralidharswamy had been practising drugs for a number of years and referred to himself with the prefix “Dr”.
It additionally famous that the matter had been thrice adjourned to allow the petitioner to submit his medical {qualifications}, if any.
Primarily based on the statements of the petitioner’s counsel, the bench stated: “…the petitioner is barely an SSLC and has not secured qualification in any stream, both Ayurveda, Allopathy or Unani, that may give him a proper for registration below the Act or the Guidelines. The one certificates that the petitioner holds is a certificates stated to have been issued by the Indian Board of Different Drugs… The certificates doesn’t encourage any confidence, as there is no such thing as a qualification indicated.”
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The courtroom concluded by dismissing the petition, observing that the petitioner couldn’t name himself a health care provider or apply as one. The order was additionally forwarded to the Secretary of Well being and Household Welfare for motion towards clinics run by unqualified individuals.
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