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IMA seeks action against quacks

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD Sept. 6. The AP State branch of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has urged the Government to verify degrees of all doctors to see that they practice the system of medicine in which they have graduated.

Referring to the police raids on clinics and other establishments, the IMA said even doctors possessing degrees in allopathic medicine should not practice other systems of medicine.

In a statement on Friday, the IMA president, Nalluri Raghava Rao, however, requested the Government to take stern action against quacks practicing without any qualifications. He said the higher incidence of diseases like AIDS and TB was mainly because of handling of these cases by quacks.

The IMA wanted the Government to expedite the process of registering medical establishments by implementing provisions of the A. P. Private Medical Care Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2002 and to stop harassment of doctors who were giving treatment to naxalites.

The Medical Council of India Member, C. L. Venkata Rao, in another statement, said advised all practitioners of allopathic and Indian systems to continue their practice by displaying their degree and registration certificates at their clinics. He said that police had tried to equate practitioners of the Indian system of medicine with quacks because of lack of knowledge. He condemned the police interrogation of some qualified graduates in the Indian system of medicine.

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