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Woman Dies After Being Administered Wrong Injections: UP Police
A 32-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh's Patti village died allegedly after being given the wrong injections by a quack, police said on Thursday.
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Teeth Broken, Tossed To The Ground, UP Child Dies After Quack Visit
The child, Anuj, was taken to the quack on Thursday night in Dhakar village of Bulandshahr district after he fell ill, a relative said.
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Man Accused Of Rape Beaten To Death In Assam
A quack was beaten to death by a mob in Sitoi Adong village in Assam's West Karbi Anglong district on Thursday. The locals alleged that the man, who was a frequent visitor, allegedly raped two village girls.
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Quack Accused Of Infecting 58 People With HIV In UP's Unnao Arrested
A quack accused of infecting 58 people with HIV over the last year by using the same syringe to administer injections in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao district has been arrested. Police tracked down Rajendra Yadav after a criminal case was filed against him over the spread of the infection.
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No Doctors? Their Assistants Can Treat Villagers, Says Bengal Government
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...
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Quack, Aide Get 7 Year Jail for Killing Woman in Unsafe Abortion
A quack and his aide were sentenced to seven years in jail by a local court for an unsafe abortion of a woman resulting in her death at Maharajpur village in 2001.
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Accused of Murder, Woman Tied to Tree and Thrashed in West Bengal
A woman in her 30s was tied to a tree and thrashed by a mob which suspected her family of murdering a quack from a neighbouring village in West Bengal's Malda district.
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Newborn Forced to Walk by Witch Doctor in Assam Village as Fever Cure
A two-day old baby boy was grabbed by his neck and made to walk a few steps by a quack as a cure for fever in a village in Assam. The baby was saved from further torture when a villager took a mobile phone video and shared it.
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Woman Dies After Being Administered Wrong Injections: UP Police
A 32-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh's Patti village died allegedly after being given the wrong injections by a quack, police said on Thursday.
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Teeth Broken, Tossed To The Ground, UP Child Dies After Quack Visit
The child, Anuj, was taken to the quack on Thursday night in Dhakar village of Bulandshahr district after he fell ill, a relative said.
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Man Accused Of Rape Beaten To Death In Assam
A quack was beaten to death by a mob in Sitoi Adong village in Assam's West Karbi Anglong district on Thursday. The locals alleged that the man, who was a frequent visitor, allegedly raped two village girls.
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Quack Accused Of Infecting 58 People With HIV In UP's Unnao Arrested
A quack accused of infecting 58 people with HIV over the last year by using the same syringe to administer injections in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao district has been arrested. Police tracked down Rajendra Yadav after a criminal case was filed against him over the spread of the infection.
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No Doctors? Their Assistants Can Treat Villagers, Says Bengal Government
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...
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Quack, Aide Get 7 Year Jail for Killing Woman in Unsafe Abortion
A quack and his aide were sentenced to seven years in jail by a local court for an unsafe abortion of a woman resulting in her death at Maharajpur village in 2001.
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Accused of Murder, Woman Tied to Tree and Thrashed in West Bengal
A woman in her 30s was tied to a tree and thrashed by a mob which suspected her family of murdering a quack from a neighbouring village in West Bengal's Malda district.
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Newborn Forced to Walk by Witch Doctor in Assam Village as Fever Cure
A two-day old baby boy was grabbed by his neck and made to walk a few steps by a quack as a cure for fever in a village in Assam. The baby was saved from further torture when a villager took a mobile phone video and shared it.
