Medical Quacks

State Medical Councils have been asked by the National Medical Council (NMC) to appoint an officer who can file complaints before a court or any other authority concerned to take action against quacks.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Wednesday wrote to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) against yoga guru Baba Ramdev alleging him of making "unprovoked demeaning and prejudicing utterances against modern medicine".

A medical officer in Bihar has been suspended for ordering that "jhola-chhaap" doctors (quacks) be identified and trained to treat patients with coronavirus infections in the state.

A one-year-old boy suffering from pneumonia was branded with a hot iron rod allegedly by a person claiming to have medical knowledge in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district, police said.

Some unscrupulous ones put a Dr before their name. Others dont, but dont like being called quacks or barefoot doctors either. They are ok with -rural medical practitioners- and they know they plug a huge gap in the health infrastructure in the country, an estimated 2.5 million of them.

What if you live in a remote village, far from a hospital, don't have a car and suddenly fall ill? In Bengal, many go to a local quack, defined by the dictionary as "ignorant pretenders of medical skills" but in many cases, assistants of registered MBBS doctors in cities who, after some years of experience, return to their own villages and set up a...

Three persons have been arrested for posing as allopathic medical practioners without necessary qualification in the district, police said today.

The Delhi government has set up a special task force to check the increasing numbers of quacks or 'pseudo doctors' in the capital. The matter had been on top priority with the Health Ministry since two people who allegedly were given wrong treatment by quacks went on an indefinite hunger strike. The Chief Medical Officer of the Anti-Quackery cell ...

State Medical Councils have been asked by the National Medical Council (NMC) to appoint an officer who can file complaints before a court or any other authority concerned to take action against quacks.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Wednesday wrote to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) against yoga guru Baba Ramdev alleging him of making "unprovoked demeaning and prejudicing utterances against modern medicine".

A medical officer in Bihar has been suspended for ordering that "jhola-chhaap" doctors (quacks) be identified and trained to treat patients with coronavirus infections in the state.

A one-year-old boy suffering from pneumonia was branded with a hot iron rod allegedly by a person claiming to have medical knowledge in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district, police said.

Some unscrupulous ones put a Dr before their name. Others dont, but dont like being called quacks or barefoot doctors either. They are ok with -rural medical practitioners- and they know they plug a huge gap in the health infrastructure in the country, an estimated 2.5 million of them.

What if you live in a remote village, far from a hospital, don't have a car and suddenly fall ill? In Bengal, many go to a local quack, defined by the dictionary as "ignorant pretenders of medical skills" but in many cases, assistants of registered MBBS doctors in cities who, after some years of experience, return to their own villages and set up a...

Three persons have been arrested for posing as allopathic medical practioners without necessary qualification in the district, police said today.

The Delhi government has set up a special task force to check the increasing numbers of quacks or 'pseudo doctors' in the capital. The matter had been on top priority with the Health Ministry since two people who allegedly were given wrong treatment by quacks went on an indefinite hunger strike. The Chief Medical Officer of the Anti-Quackery cell ...