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More take fish medicine on second day

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD June 9. Hope writ large on their faces, they came huffing-puffing to swallow the wonder medicine administered through a live fish on the second day of `Mrigasira karti' on Monday at the Exhibition Grounds here. Though the sprawling ground did not present an overcrowded look as in the past, there was a steady stream of men and women dropping in to take the fish medicine.

Bathini Harinath Goud, senior member of the Bathini family administering the medicine for the last 155 years, claimed that 3.50 lakh patients had taken the medicine by 4 p.m today and hoped an equal number would avail of it in next three days. But, this claim stood contradicted going by the number of fish medicine tokens sold.

C. Ilaiah, Additional Director, Fisheries Department, said till 3 p.m on Monday only 58,000 fishlings were sold. Last year the department had sold one lakh fishlings. This year the Fisheries Department procured 1.65 lakh fishlings, including 20,000 from Nanded.

Mr. Harinath Goud, however, stuck to his claim saying that he had prepared medicine for seven lakh patients this year and half of it had been finished. After closure of the fish medicine camp at the Exhibition Grounds, the scene would shift to his ancestral home at Doodhbowli. Here the medicine would be administered for another three days. Quite a sizable number of persons were taking the medicine along with the jaggery mix, he said.

Mr. Harinath Goud denied that the question of scientific rational behind the fish medicine raised by some organisations had an impact on the patient turnout. And as if to support his claim there were people coming from far off places for the second and third year to take the medicine.

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