Gujarat: Alternative medical practitioner booked for prescribing allopathic drugs
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Gujarat: In a case of alleged quackery, an Ahmedabad based alternative medical practitioner has been booked by the Dholka rural police under the charges of prescribing allopathic medication without proper medical qualification.
The accused has been identified as a 65-year-old who was running a clinic in Badarkha village in the rural areas of Ahmedabad and claimed that he is a registered alternative medical practitioner; however, after the police raided his clinic, they found stocks of allopathic medicines but the doctor failed to provide the officials with any proper certification of being eligible for prescribing allopathic medication.
This came after doctor Shubhash Gandhi Prajapati, the Medical Officer at Chaloda village PHC in Dholka taluka secured information that a quack doctor was prescribing allopathic medicine to the villagers without proper qualification.
Ahemdabad Mirror reports that fter that the Taluka Health Officer, Dr. Munira Master was informed and acting on the information, he immediately initiated legal actions.
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