New Delhi: In a shocking revelation, a recent WHO report has claimed that only 31 per cent of India’s proclaimed allopathic doctors in India in 2001 were educated up to the secondary level. The report further claimed that a staggering 57 per cent of these doctors did not have any medical qualification degree. Published in June 2016, the WHO report titled ‘ The Health Workforce in India ’ revealed that just 18.8 per cent of the overall allopathic doctors in rural India had a medical qualification.
“I don’t think this report has officially come to the MCI yet. But in general, any person practising allopathic medicine who does not have a registered medical qualification comes under quackery,” quoted an official of the Medical Council of India (MCI), as saying. The report further revealed that female healthcare workers (38 per cent of the total) were found to be more educated and…
