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Telangana DCA books cases against 135 quacks in 2024
3 weeks, 3 days ago

Telangana DCA books cases against 135 quacks in 2024

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: As many as 135 quacks came under the scanner of Telangana Drugs Control Administration this year for illegally stocking and selling medicines. On Saturday, officials raided the premises of a quack identified as A. Naveen Reddy, at Muduchintalpally Village in Medchal-Malkajgiri district for allegedly practicing medicine without proper qualification at his clinic by name ‘Swapna Clinic’, according to DCA …

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Telangana DCA officials raid medical shop, quack’s clinic for committing violations
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Telangana DCA officials raid medical shop, quack’s clinic for committing violations

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Officials of Drugs Control Administration raided a medical shop at Wankidi Village in Neradigonda Mandal in Adilabad for operating illegally without a drug license and seized the stocks. They also raided a quack’s clinic and seized drugs stocked for sale at Shaikpet in Jubilee Hills apart from seizing two overpriced medicines - Tver ointment and Sazolet 500 mg in …

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Crackdown on Quacks: 10 Held, As Many Flee
1 month, 1 week ago

Crackdown on Quacks: 10 Held, As Many Flee

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad:At least 10 quacks were caught practising medicine in Hyderabad’s Kompally, Dulapally, and Bahadurpally areas, while another 10 fled locking their clinics. Telangana Medical Council officials, along with Health Care Reforms Doctors Association leaders, conducted extensive raids that brought to the fore these individuals operating without valid medical qualifications. They were found administering high-dose antibiotics and steroids without proper authorisation, …

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Drug Control Authority raids on quacks continue, stock worth Rs 3.18L seized
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Drug Control Authority raids on quacks continue, stock worth Rs 3.18L seized

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD : Continuing with its clampdown on unlicensed practitioners — quacks — the Drug Control Authority officials arrested four people on Thursday, from various districts and seized stocks worth Rs 3.18 lakh. According to DCA, the quacks who were claiming themselves as “rural medical practitioners” were hoarding substantial quantities without a drug license. During the raids, the officials discovered several …

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DCA Raids Outlets and Clinics Selling Banned and Overpriced Drugs in State
11 months, 1 week ago

DCA Raids Outlets and Clinics Selling Banned and Overpriced Drugs in State

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: DCA officials raided a medical shop in Khammam that was selling antifungal drug ‘Itralix 100’ Itraconazole capsules 100 mg at exorbitant prices. DCA also raided a quack’s clinic and seized drugs worth Rs 65,000 at Patheshapur village in Jangaon District. ‘Itralix 100’ and Itraconazole capsules 100 mg were being sold at prices way above the ‘ceiling price’ fixed by …

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Illegal hospital in Sohna busted, two quacks held
1 year, 3 months ago

Illegal hospital in Sohna busted, two quacks held

Hindustan Times  

A joint team of chief minister’s flying squad and Haryana health department busted an illegal hospital being run on Tauru Road in Sohna on Tuesday and arrested two quacks from the spot, officials said on Wednesday. Police said Govind Kumar, who owned the facility, and Zakir Hussain, who worked as a “doctor” there, failed to produce any document to establish …

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Beyond the City Limits: The Silent Epidemic of Sexual Dysfunction - News18
1 year, 3 months ago

Beyond the City Limits: The Silent Epidemic of Sexual Dysfunction - News18

News 18  

At half past midnight in a busy emergency room in a Delhi government hospital, an unconscious patient in his mid-20s was wheeled on a stretcher. This sexual health month, we talk about the silent epidemic of sexual dysfunction in rural India. While government initiatives like the National Health Mission and National AIDS Control Organisation have made substantial inroads in increasing …

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Column: Sorry, Joe Rogan: Scientists should never ‘debate’ anti-vaccine quacks. Here’s why
1 year, 6 months ago

Column: Sorry, Joe Rogan: Scientists should never ‘debate’ anti-vaccine quacks. Here’s why

LA Times  

Given that we live in a world in which almost everything, including presidential politics, takes on the trappings of cheap entertainment, it’s no wonder that the purveyors of anti-vaccine and anti-science claptrap are demanding that legitimate experts validate their positions through the spectacle of public debates. — Immunologist John P. Moore When vaccine expert Peter Hotez tweeted a link to …

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18 quacks held for running sex determination, abortion racket in Telangana's Warangal
1 year, 7 months ago

18 quacks held for running sex determination, abortion racket in Telangana's Warangal

India Today  

Police have arrested as many as 18 members of a gang that was running an illegal sex determination and abortion racket in Telangana’s Warangal without any educational qualification. Police also seized three scanners, 10 cell phones, and Rs 73,000 cash from their illegal unit in Venkateshwara Colony, Gopalpur. Warangal Police Commissioner AV Ranganath said police received a complaint about some …

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‘Illegal’ bone setters enjoy people’s backing
2 years, 4 months ago

‘Illegal’ bone setters enjoy people’s backing

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Neeraj P recently suffered a sprain in his neck. A dichotomy between loyal patients on the one hand and skepticism of authorities on the other exists for hundreds of bone setters ‘practicing’ in the city. President of Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association Dr. Mahesh Kumar said that bone setters are considered as quacks by the medical community. “Orthopaedic doctors receive …

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Telangana govt to check private hospitals overcharging patients
2 years, 6 months ago

Telangana govt to check private hospitals overcharging patients

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: With the state government implementing the Central Clinical Establishment Act, 2021 to monitor private hospitals and clinics, officials said they would start imposing fee regulation on hospitals that overcharge patients. A district registering authority will be formed as per the Act, whose members include the Collector, additional collector, DMHO, police commissioner or SP and president of the Indian Medical …

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Gurugram: 2 quacks arrested for illegal termination of pregnancies in Badshahpur
2 years, 11 months ago

Gurugram: 2 quacks arrested for illegal termination of pregnancies in Badshahpur

Hindustan Times  

Police arrested two men from two areas in Badshahpur on Wednesday night for their alleged involvement in illegally terminating pregnancies by impersonating as doctors. Sandeep was allegedly impersonating as a doctor for two months, while Khalid was doing the same for at least three years and giving medicines to women for terminating their pregnancies, as per FIR. Separate FIRs were …

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Mystery fever now grips UP's Kasganj, quacks rule | Ground Report
3 years, 4 months ago

Mystery fever now grips UP's Kasganj, quacks rule | Ground Report

India Today  

The mystery fever outbreak that started from Western Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad has spread to many other adjoining districts, including Kasganj. Assistant Chief Medical Officer Avanindra Kumar said five people have died in the district, and all measures to prevent vector-borne diseases are being taken. Dr Amit in the OPD of the Community Health Centre said more than 100 patients with …

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Need to Redesign Welfare System to Meet Challenge of Pandemics: Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee
3 years, 6 months ago

Need to Redesign Welfare System to Meet Challenge of Pandemics: Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee

News 18  

The Covid-19 pandemic has paved the way for learning many lessons with regard to the country's health situation and preparedness in general as well as highlighted the need to redesign welfare systems, Noble laureate and renowned economist Abhijit Banerjee said on Sunday. While addressing a webinar organised by the city-based National Institute for Implementation Research on Non-Communicable Diseases, Banerjee focused …

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COVID-19: Superstitions, Traditions Fuelling Virus Spread in Rural Rajasthan
3 years, 7 months ago

COVID-19: Superstitions, Traditions Fuelling Virus Spread in Rural Rajasthan

News 18  

Unfazed by the increasing spread of COVID-19 and related deaths, the rural folks in Rajasthan are relying on superstitions and crude practices of quackery, instead of health experts and medical help. Even as the people of Dantra Dhani village in Bhilwara district believe that hanging shoes at the façades of their houses will ward off the “evil spirits”, those in …

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Hospital wards lie vacant in parts of MP as villagers prefer quacks over govt health facilities
3 years, 7 months ago

Hospital wards lie vacant in parts of MP as villagers prefer quacks over govt health facilities

India Today  

The health department of the Madhya Pradesh government faces a peculiar situation in the rural areas of Rewa, Satna, Betul and Ujjain where villagers are approaching quacks for treatment of coronavirus even as hospital wards, some of them equipped with oxygen and specially prepared for the job, remain unoccupied. At Satna’s Majhgavan block, which has seen a rise in corona …

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Covid Prowls in Rural Bihar: Doctors Helpless, Hospitals Choked, Locals Turn to Quacks
3 years, 8 months ago

Covid Prowls in Rural Bihar: Doctors Helpless, Hospitals Choked, Locals Turn to Quacks

News 18  

As we walk into a rural health clinic at Khawaspur, just 20 kilometres from the district headquarters of Bhojpur in Bihar, a doctor is seen sitting helplessly. With a stethoscope and a few paracetamol and vitamin C tablets, he cannot do much for Covid patients frequently walking in. “People come here with cough and cold…they then go to Uttar Pradesh …

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Bengal to use quacks as first line of defence against Covid-19
3 years, 8 months ago

Bengal to use quacks as first line of defence against Covid-19

Hindustan Times  

The West Bengal government will use the state’s 275,000 quacks as the first line of defence against the second wave of Covid-19, which has registered a 5- 8 times jump in rural Bengal over last year’s peak. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee took stock of Covid-19 situation in the state on Wednesday. We can name them ‘Swasthya Suraksha Bondhu’ …

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Hyderabad: Quacks’ miracle cure may blind diabetics
5 years, 2 months ago

Hyderabad: Quacks’ miracle cure may blind diabetics

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Quacks in the city are promising an effective treatment for diabetic retinopathy. Doctors practising modern medicine are dealing with patients who are reporting severe complications and also irreversible blindness as a consequence of this unscientific treatment. Dr P. Tandava Krishnan, senior consultant of vitreo retinal services at Maxiv-ision Super Speciality Hospital, says that when patients are told that they …

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GDP growth at six-year low: Case of quacks turning into surgeons, says Congress; DMK asks BJP to address 'real issues'
5 years, 4 months ago

GDP growth at six-year low: Case of quacks turning into surgeons, says Congress; DMK asks BJP to address 'real issues'

Firstpost  

Congress asked on Twitter if the GDP growth of 5 percent was even accurate, while its spokesperson Sanjay Jha claimed that the real GDP was at 3 percent or maybe even lower. — Sanjay Jha August 30, 2019 Calling it a classic case of quacks turning into surgeons, Congress communications in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala said that the “myopic BJP government” …

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Drug company representatives are giving ‘quack’ doctors fridges and televisions to sell antibiotics
5 years, 4 months ago

Drug company representatives are giving ‘quack’ doctors fridges and televisions to sell antibiotics

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Two of India’s biggest drug …

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Malappuram: Youth dies after treatment denied
5 years, 10 months ago

Malappuram: Youth dies after treatment denied

Deccan Chronicle  

Malappuram: A young man confined at a black magic centre at Manjeri has died due to the crude and brutal treatment methods followed by quacks who manage the centre, his friends say. According to a voice clip the victim Kolappatta Firoz Ali, 38, of Pathutharappadi sent to his friend Shibu before his death last week, the quacks confined him for …

Survivors may still be in shock
6 years, 4 months ago

Survivors may still be in shock

Deccan Chronicle  

KOZHIKODE: The traumatised survivors of the rain havoc face several disorders like depression, fear and sleeplessness. The social media is also offering several psychological tips which would have a reverse effect if they come from an unprofessional source. “Trauma cases should be handled by trained counsellors and each individual should be screened and provided tips according to the requirement,” said …

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Unskilled doctors add to health crisis in encephalitis hit areas of Uttar Pradesh
6 years, 5 months ago

Unskilled doctors add to health crisis in encephalitis hit areas of Uttar Pradesh

India Today  

As many as 11 months after the tragedy at Gorakhpur's BRD Medical College, rural health in eastern UP is in the hands of quacks. Ache Lal Prajapati in Singhpur village of Maharajganj district runs a medical store and clinic at a small shop despite having no medical degree since the last 10 years. - Additional chief medical officer of Maharajganj …

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