Parents lost their two-year-old child on the hands of a quack after he injected the infant a wrong medicine. Ashit who had disguised himself as a doctor worked as a salesman at some Laxmi medical store in Jamshedpur. The parent couple along with few relatives reached the police station to register a complaint and demanded to arrest the culprit.
Sunny Sharma, father of the deceased child had taken the infant to a Sadar Hospital along with his wife after he developed a sudden illness. After discovering that the child specialist in the Sadar hospital is absent, the couple took the infant to a private hospital where they had an encounter with Ashit.
Ashit told them that he is a doctor and extended help to the worried parents. The parents let him inject some medicine to the child and later returned back home with the child. However, the child suddenly stopped reacting and his limbs turned cold.
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The parents took the child back to Ashit who asked them to take the child to MGM Hospital immediately. The parents did take the child to MGM hospital, but in vain, the doctors there declared the child ‘brought dead’.
Later the parents discovered that Ashit was not a doctor and he used to work as a salesman for a medical store. The aggrieved parents reached to the police station to register a complaint against the quack and requested an enquiry of the case. The police is raiding places to arrest the culprit.
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Quacks are the serious risk for community health. They use with substandard medication, heavy doses of steroids and antibiotics even to children, just to name a few. Now question arise whose responsibility is tackling the quacks; health department or police? Do we have sufficient provision in our legal system deal with the quackery?
