In villages and small towns, whoever is giving an injection is declared as doctors by the public. Since during emergency situations, they are the ones available, people approach them for all ailments. They may be having experience of medical practice out of getting exposed as ANMs, FNAs, Nursing assistants, theatre technicians, plaster technicians, lab technicians, medical store workers, pharmacists and teachers getting some bogus degrees through unrecognised institutions which were run by West Bengal group mostly and also Homeopathy degrees through postal study.
The problem is they try to contact doctors practising nearby and utilise them under the guise of sending cases to them. Doctors wantonly or out of necessity help them.Instances of a Neuro Surgeon giving Rs.25 per patient brought by the quack when he was charging Rs.75 during those days was well known. An MNA was running a…