Quacks are having a field day in private hospitals and health clinics in some parts of Kerala again, pushing a section of doctors to reactivate their special cell to zero in on them.
According to functionaries of the General Practitioners Association (GPA), a forum of MBBS doctors, these unauthorised physicians are mainly of three groups. P.C. Varun, executive committee member, GPA Kerala, says that there are quite a few foreign medical graduates from the State who have come back from their place of studies during the pandemic period. There are some others studying in medical universities in Ukraine, who were affected by the ongoing war with Russia.
“Some of these people have managed to join certain private hospitals and health facilities as ‘observers’. They have not gone back to resume their studies. Of late, these people are found to have been working as junior doctors in hospitals without any medical degrees,” he claims.
