BMC to survey quack doctors

MUMBAI, Oct 13: The Public Health Department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will undertake a survey to find out the numb...

MUMBAI, Oct 13: The Public Health Department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will undertake a survey to find out the number of quack doctors active in the city.

The move comes in the wake of a dharna held by medical practitioners urging the state government to introduce a bill to check doctors practicing with `fake’ medical certificates.

The BMC health committee met on Monday and discussed the issue after Bharatiya Janata Party member Dr Jivraj Shah sought a thorough inquiry into the status of medical practitioners with such certificates. Shah said that the BMC has no powers for penal action which is the prerogative of the Medical Council of India, the apex statutory authority. “The BMC can hand over a list for bogus doctors to the Maharashtra Medical Council to help derecognise them,” he said.

Chairman of civic health committee Sardar Tara Singh said that after 1992, the civic health department has not undertaken any such survey. The new survey will cover all the 23 wards and check ifthe doctors are practising with genuine degrees and registration. “Even the police shift the onus on to the Medical Council and say they will act only after it has been established by the statutory body that a certain doctor is bogus,”said Singh.

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