Today, the so-called unqualified health practitioners stand as among the most dangerous healers being experienced by the public, spreading both hackneyed sciences and clinical attacks on humanity. Quackery and fake medicine in Kashmir destroy not only the integrity of health care delivery systems, but also hold gravely threatening risks against innumerable lives dependent on their services.
Those spurious healers seem to capitalize on the vulnerabilities of the senseless needy by attempting outlandish contracts, one of which is to ruin them. Few big fishes of public health must intercede and causatively act against this typically across-the-board menace.
The quacks in Kashmir are much of opportunists who target those that are in dire need-motherless orphans, those with chronic or rare diseases, or anyone believing that swift preventive or curative action is necessary in complex situations.
The greater the aforementioned ill and use of the media with all outshoot websites, aka unregulated portals, the more swiftly it has piled up an army against these poor souls who succumb. The damages can mount from missed diagnosis to useless or life-threatening interventions depending upon the severity.
Even though quackery is an obvious hazard, control against such swindles is kind of uneven and mostly weak. Some operate neatly tucked away, hedging with ambiguous jargon and legal lacunas, which so far have saved their behinds from conviction.
In some situations, the local health department and state regulatory agencies might be overwhelmed due to the magnitude of these issues, or the patients just might not know which treatments are deemed worthy in terms of licensing and approval.
More stringent measures holding the dubious parties accountable for the misdeeds they cause would, therefore, be appreciated. Allow me to gently suggest creating a governmental database open to all in their endeavor to independently verify professional qualifications of any hospital doctor or practitioner-involved in any medical care.
This will prevent the situation of several quacks, aka fake doctors, or pseudo-medical professionals who freely treat patients without any knowledge of their work. Additionally, government departments need to become more proactive in collecting information to dispel these quacked facilities.
