Quacks to be caught

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CHATURANGA PRADEEP SAMARAWICKRAMA Follow

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Raids will be conducted islandwide from tomorrow to round up some 30,000 quacks by Regional Directors of Health Services (RDHS) on a directive of Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena.

Minister Sirisena has instructed Director General of Health Services (RDHS) Dr. Ajith Mendis to direct Regional Directors of Health Services to raid all illegal dispensaries run by persons without qualifications to practise medicine but carry out impersonating as qualified medical professionals, Minister Sirisena told Daily Mirror. (Sandun A. Jayasekera)

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I Hussein Monday, 21 March 2011 08:41 AM

This minister has done some good things in a year where his predecessor didnt do half of it in his entire tenor.
I wonder why he wasnt made the PM of this country.

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local boy Monday, 21 March 2011 08:46 AM

good decision, but...?

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southee Monday, 21 March 2011 08:58 AM

good move to inform upfront

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Sam Monday, 21 March 2011 09:15 AM

It's great. Hope that you catch them & punish them. This has happened in the past too. Quacks were caught, but they were released somehow & started their practices at the the same venue shortly. The other thing is it is very difficult to catch them too. Because there are a lot of Ayurvedic practitioners who prescribe western medicine, & when the flying-squad get to them they show their ayurvedic registration & get away. I'm not sceptic but this had been the reality.

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idiot Monday, 21 March 2011 09:20 AM

Oh you knew you had 30,000 but didn't make any move so far??

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Commonsense Monday, 21 March 2011 02:45 PM

What about foreign universities degree holders? Especially from Russia and China, they are just passed their degree without any experienced with human and then any how passed the exam in Sri Lanka and practiced. Do you know in China MBBS is not eligible for practice. It’s a basic degree. For Chinese graduates must pass their MD for practice freely. Because Chinese graduates get animal models to practice in their undergraduate courses. When they are doing MD then they can handle the human. In Sri Lanka Ayurveda practitioners (Who graduated from Universities) are much more developed than those foreign graduates. So consider those foreign graduates also. Other thing is don’t insult good graduated Ayurveda practitioners.
Please good enough to publish this.

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Ranjitdea Tuesday, 22 March 2011 12:28 AM

If people are happy with the quacks and get cured why worry. As if MBBS doctors do the correct thing always. First check the quality of MBBS docs in the Health Ministry

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Bird Eye Tuesday, 22 March 2011 03:30 AM

But, That doesn't justify Ayurvedics prescribing western medicine.

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