Quack arrested for running fake clinic in Gurugram

Gurugram: A quack was arrested on Friday by a joint team from the Chief Minister's flying squad and the district health department for operating an illegal clinic and treating patients in Hari Nagar Colony, Sector 37, police said.

The raiding team also seized large quantities of medicines from the clinic.

According to the PTI report, a flying squad member said they received information about the illegal clinic and a raid was conducted that was led by medical officer Rajesh Jindal.

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During the raid, the team questioned Mohammad Danish alias MD Khan, who was treating patients in the clinic. When he failed to show his academic degree or permission to run the clinic, he was arrested, the police said.

The clinic did not follow the rules of disposal of biomedical waste, Jindal said in his complaint.

On the basis of the complaint, an FIR was registered at Sector 37 police station, news agency PTI reported.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that in its continuous battle to eradicate quackery in the state of Telangana, the State Medical Council recently conducted raids at fake clinics in Shamshabad and Shadnagar area and identified around 10 quacks who were practising allopathy medicine without valid medical degrees.

During the raid, the anti-quackery committee of Telangana Medical Council (TSMC) found that these quacks did not have an MBBS degree to treat patients and some of the quacks who were caught did not even have class 10 pass qualifications.

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