Chhattisgarh : AYUSH practitioners being harassed in the name of quackery
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Raipur: The issue of alleged harassment of medical practitioners in Chhattisgarh “in the name of action against quacks” rocked the state Legislative Assembly.
Congress legislators were suspended after they trooped into the Well of the House raising slogans over the action, although their suspension was revoked later.
Raising the issue through a collective Call Attention Motion, BJP MLA Shivratan Sharma, state Congress chief and MLA Bhupesh Baghel and Congress Legislative Party Leader T S Singhdeo said in the name of action against quacks, medical practitioners with valid degrees and practising in rural areas, are being harassed and their clinics and establishments are being sealed.
“Most of the primary health centres in the state are devoid of doctors. Besides, the community health centres and district hospitals also lack specialists and doctors,” they said.
Under such circumstances, people with valid medical degrees are providing primary medical care in rural areas, but the state government is taking action against them saying that fake degree holders cannot give treatment, they said.
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