Thiruvananthapuram: “You can become a doctor in five days. Epidemics and fatal diseases can be cured without medicines,” goes an advertisement displayed at various spots in the state capital.
A five-day training session was to be held at a city hotel from Saturday for which Rs 7,000 was charged as registration fees. The advertisement says that using ‘Triorigin Mudra Therapy’ all diseases can be healed without medicines.
However, the police swung into action based on a complaint filed by state committee of the
Indian Medical Association (
IMA) against the ‘quackery training’. The police had decided to nab the people who were behind this and the hotel authorities were informed about this. But sensing the danger, the organizers of the event, hailing from north India, abandoned the plan to organize the training programme in the last minute.
Fumed over the unscientific and unproven methods of healing being used to fleece the common man, the IMA had approached the health minister and director general of police to take action against the organizers of the event.
“We were assured by the director general of police that appropriate action will be taken against them when they land here for the event. However, fearing arrest they did not turn up,” said state secretary of IMA Dr N Sulphi.
This is nothing but training in
quackery though they claim to train people to become
doctors in five days. The culprits should be arrested and case should be registered against them, said Dr E K Ummer, state president of IMA, in his complaint given to the health minister and the director general of police.
Now, IMA has decided to campaign against such training programmes and also against miraculous healers, who are adopting various healing techniques which are not scientifically proven. “Several reports are coming from various corners of the state that such
quacks are still treating the patients and no action is being taken against them,” said Sulphi.
IMA’s 104 branches in the state will join hands with the state police to book the quacks. “It has been reported that in several rural areas in the state, people who are not qualified in modern medicine are adopting it to treat the patients. This cannot be encouraged since Medical Council of India has not given recognition for practice in modern medicine if he or she is not an MBBS degree holder,” said Sulphi.
