RTI Campaign 2010: Crusade against quack doctors
Deaths due to medical negligence - a newspaper headline we come across ever so often. In 2006, Ramesh Kumar Verma, a Hissar journalist decided to dig beyond the headlines and filed an RTI application with the Medical Council of India. His query - How many doctors in Hissar practicing with fake degrees have been caught by the police? To his surprise, he found many doctors on that list were still practicing medicine not only in private hospitals but also in government hospitals.
