A team of Hazaribagh district administration raided different health centres and clinics in the town and surrounding areas here on Tuesday and detained 13 quacks and their 2 aides, who were practicing medicine without proper medical certificates. The administration had constituted an eight teams headed by magistrates to nab fake medical practitioners of the town.
Hazaribagh Deputy Commissioner Ravi Shankar Shukla informed that frequent complaints were coming in about some of the fake doctors practicing in the town and rural areas of the district.
Shukla said that the Sadar Sub Divisional officer Aditya Ranjan was instructed to form a team and raid the suspected doctors clinics in the town area and the remote areas of the district at a time.
Ranjan formed eight teams under the leadership of the magistrates of the district headquarter. The teams conducted the raids in the afternoon of Tuesday and nabbed the 12 suspected doctors and two medical staffs.
The doctors who were taken into custody by the sadar police station of the Hazaribagh include Dr. Anju Arya, Dr. AK Mehta, Dr. P Kumar, Dr. S. Alam, Dr. M. Alam, Dr. Sohail Quaiser, Dr. RK Pandey, Dr. Junaid, Dr. Mratunjay Kumar Sinha, Dr. Nazrul Islam, Dr. MA Ansari, Dr. Ranjeet Kumar, Dr. DilipRavani and two medical staff named Umesh Kumar and Vikash Kumar.
Ranjan said that a team of experts was verifying the degree of the detained doctors one by one by the two senior doctors headed by Dr. Vijay Shankar.
The SDO said that they will not disturb the genuine practitioners but stern action will be taken against quacks.