CHENNAI: Practitioners of different medicine rather than Siddha, Ayurveda, Unani and Homeopathy aren't authorised to call themselves doctors or prescribe drugs however an unrecognised panel — National Board of Alternative Medicine — has used state machinery to obtain felony sanctity for loads of unlawful physicians.
Starting in 2013, this ‘board’ revealed in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette the names of 522 folks as alternative medicine practitioners. This persisted for at least two years prior to the state health division came upon the fraud.
TOI has accessed at least seven lists the board revealed as much as 2015. The board of different medicine’s deception was deceptively easy in apply; the convenience with which it pulled off the con, in the respectable state e-newsletter, is amazing.
One of the lists, in Part VI - Section 4 (Supplement) of the gazette dated March 26, 2014, as an example, states, under the banner of National Board of Alternative Medicine: “The executive committee of board has been authorised as in line with the byelaws and a resolution handed in the general frame meeting. The following participants had been licensed and enrolled in the sign up of National Board of Alternative Medicines as Registered Alternative Medical Practitioners...” It then lists just about 90 other people as registered alternative medical practitioners.
“It mentioned ‘National Board’, so we initially idea it was from the health division,” mentioned stationery and printing division director J Jayakanthan, who's responsible for gazette printing. “It was a personal advertisement. Officials recently advised us this board is not recognised. We don’t allow such things anymore. ”
Will take action towards quacks: Health secy
The state medical council final Thursday filed a criticism towards Jayapandi Karuppusamy, one of the most unlawful physicians whose names the gazette revealed in the 2014 list discussed above, for submitting faux level certificate from Annamalai University and faking a short lived registration certificates to allow his medical apply. The alternative medicine board introduced his registration quantity as 02925.
“This guy faked his level and even controlled to sign up himself as physician in the gazette,” Tamil Nadu State Medical Council president Dr K Senthil mentioned.
The state directorate of medical and rural health services mentioned it had booked a large number of alternative medicine practitioners for quackery over the past few years. “Those keeping degrees recognised by means of the Medical Council of India — MBBS (allopathy), Central Council for Indian Medicine (ayurveda, siddha, unani and homeopathy) and Ayush (yoga and naturopathy) — are allowed to call themselves doctors,” mentioned director of medical and rural health services Dr M R Enbasekaran.
“Such advertisements are unlawful. The board provides classes in alternative medicine that the government does now not recognise,” he mentioned.
Another senior respectable mentioned the advertisement was a blessing in hide: “It’s mistaken on their section to market it themselves as doctors,” he mentioned. “They cannot [legally] use the ‘Dr’ prefix. We initially idea we will have to take them to court docket over this. But we now have a list of at least 500 other people’s names together with their addresses. We have now acquired permission from the state health division to initiate action towards they all.”
State health secretary J Radhakrishnan mentioned the state will take action towards quacks and initiate felony court cases towards people who faux medical degrees.
“Quackery is among the greatest public health menaces,” he mentioned. “We will handle it firmly and if we discover other people faking medical level certificate, we will take felony action towards them.”
Starting in 2013, this ‘board’ revealed in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette the names of 522 folks as alternative medicine practitioners. This persisted for at least two years prior to the state health division came upon the fraud.
TOI has accessed at least seven lists the board revealed as much as 2015. The board of different medicine’s deception was deceptively easy in apply; the convenience with which it pulled off the con, in the respectable state e-newsletter, is amazing.
One of the lists, in Part VI - Section 4 (Supplement) of the gazette dated March 26, 2014, as an example, states, under the banner of National Board of Alternative Medicine: “The executive committee of board has been authorised as in line with the byelaws and a resolution handed in the general frame meeting. The following participants had been licensed and enrolled in the sign up of National Board of Alternative Medicines as Registered Alternative Medical Practitioners...” It then lists just about 90 other people as registered alternative medical practitioners.
“It mentioned ‘National Board’, so we initially idea it was from the health division,” mentioned stationery and printing division director J Jayakanthan, who's responsible for gazette printing. “It was a personal advertisement. Officials recently advised us this board is not recognised. We don’t allow such things anymore. ”
Will take action towards quacks: Health secy
The state medical council final Thursday filed a criticism towards Jayapandi Karuppusamy, one of the most unlawful physicians whose names the gazette revealed in the 2014 list discussed above, for submitting faux level certificate from Annamalai University and faking a short lived registration certificates to allow his medical apply. The alternative medicine board introduced his registration quantity as 02925.
“This guy faked his level and even controlled to sign up himself as physician in the gazette,” Tamil Nadu State Medical Council president Dr K Senthil mentioned.
The state directorate of medical and rural health services mentioned it had booked a large number of alternative medicine practitioners for quackery over the past few years. “Those keeping degrees recognised by means of the Medical Council of India — MBBS (allopathy), Central Council for Indian Medicine (ayurveda, siddha, unani and homeopathy) and Ayush (yoga and naturopathy) — are allowed to call themselves doctors,” mentioned director of medical and rural health services Dr M R Enbasekaran.
“Such advertisements are unlawful. The board provides classes in alternative medicine that the government does now not recognise,” he mentioned.
Another senior respectable mentioned the advertisement was a blessing in hide: “It’s mistaken on their section to market it themselves as doctors,” he mentioned. “They cannot [legally] use the ‘Dr’ prefix. We initially idea we will have to take them to court docket over this. But we now have a list of at least 500 other people’s names together with their addresses. We have now acquired permission from the state health division to initiate action towards they all.”
State health secretary J Radhakrishnan mentioned the state will take action towards quacks and initiate felony court cases towards people who faux medical degrees.
“Quackery is among the greatest public health menaces,” he mentioned. “We will handle it firmly and if we discover other people faking medical level certificate, we will take felony action towards them.”
Gamed via gazette: 500 quacks, no doctors
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