NHRC issues notices to TN govt, MCI over quacks in state

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) today issued notices and sought reports from the Medical Council of India (MCI), Tamil Nadu government and the state's Medical Council over reports that 30,000 quacks are practising medicine in the state.
According to an NHRC release today, the notices were issued after it took suo motu cognisance of a media report that there were 30,000 fake doctors practicing in Tamil Nadu.
"The state president of the Indian Medical Association disclosed this during a meeting recently at Namakkal in Tamil Nadu. Allegedly, in the backward districts of Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri particularly, a number of fake doctors are practicing medicine," NHRC said.

Seeking reports in this regard from the Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu, secretaries of MCI and Tamil Nadu State Medical Council, Justice D Murugesan, Member, NHRC observed that the contents of the news report, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of human rights of the people of Tamil Nadu.
They have also been directed to submit a report on the action taken to prosecute the quacks and were given two weeks to respond.