Chennai: As the crackdown on quacks continued in Tiruvallur, more skeletons came tumbling out after officials caught a 'physiotherapist' prescribing drugs and a doctor-couple using an illegal machine to conduct ultrasound in the district on Thursday.
For the past three weeks, public health officials had been conducting inspections at clinics across Tiruvallur in the wake of an outbreak of a mix of viral and bacterial infections in some pockets.
On Thursday, officials nabbed a 35-year-old man, who claimed to be a physiotherapist, for prescribing drugs and administering injections, fromMadharapakkam in Gummidipoondi. The man, identified as Nasser, had been practising for close to a month.
"When we questioned him, he said he was hired by a qualified doctor," said D Mohanan, joint health director of health, Tiruvallur.
In the same village, officials caught a doctor-couple with an unregistered scanning machine under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, which bans prenatal sex determination. The couple will be called in for questioning on Friday.
Since the beginning of August, around 21 quacks were caught by public health officials in the district, most of whom are now out on bail.
For the past three weeks, public health officials had been conducting inspections at clinics across Tiruvallur in the wake of an outbreak of a mix of viral and bacterial infections in some pockets.
On Thursday, officials nabbed a 35-year-old man, who claimed to be a physiotherapist, for prescribing drugs and administering injections, fromMadharapakkam in Gummidipoondi. The man, identified as Nasser, had been practising for close to a month.
"When we questioned him, he said he was hired by a qualified doctor," said D Mohanan, joint health director of health, Tiruvallur.
In the same village, officials caught a doctor-couple with an unregistered scanning machine under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, which bans prenatal sex determination. The couple will be called in for questioning on Friday.
Since the beginning of August, around 21 quacks were caught by public health officials in the district, most of whom are now out on bail.
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