The Telangana State unit of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has constituted a first-of-its-kind anti-quackery committee to check the practice of allopathic medicine by unqualified persons. IMA Telangana State president K Shyamsunder said that the anti-quackery committee would be headed by Dr. B.N. Rao (Karimnagar) as the chairman, and D. Ram Kishan (Mahbubnagar), Vasudeva Reddy (Peddapalli) and K.
Srinivas (Warangal) would be the members. He said that they would constitute similar committees in all the 58 branches of IMA in Telangana. Expressing concern over some unscrupulous and unqualified persons without MBBS degree calling themselves as doctors and prescribing allopathic medicine against medical norms, he said that they would take the matter to the notice of the district Medical and Health Department for taking necessary action against fake doctors. He also found fault with…
