The directorate of medical and rural health services of Tamil Nadu have found that half a dozen doctors have been lending their name boards and prescription pads to quacks for a monthly fee of Rs.25, 000 to Rs. 50,000. The officials from the directorate have lodged a police complaint against a Theni based registered medical practitioner for lending his name board and prescription to a quack. A complaint from joint director says that the quack doctor who impersonated medical practitioner, runs a clinic and a pharmacy.
Moreover, he incited people to protest and prevented his arrest after a raid. "We caught him red-handed prescribing medicines on prescription pad.”, said the investigating officer. During inquiry, the quack doctor accepted that he used to pay Rs 25,000 every month to the medical practitioner. In another case, officials also found two Chennai-based Indian medicine…
