BIJNOR: Days after Amroha CMO stirred up a hornet's nest by alleging that MP, MLAs and public representatives were preventing action against quacks, the neighbouring district of Bijnor witnessed heavy crackdown on Saturday. A nursing home was sealed while FIRs were filed against nine quacks.
As news spread, a large number of quacks locked their premises and went underground.
According to officials, the crackdown will continue with an aim to root out all quacks thriving in the district following orders of district magistrate Umesh Mishra.
Talking with TOI, SK Nigam, Bijnor's nodal officer and additional chief medical officer (ACMO), said, "FIRs have been filed against nine quacks at different police stations for practicing Allopathy without proper qualification. Out of them, six are from Bijnor while three belong to Dhampur area."
Nigam added, "We have sealed a nursing home here in Chandpur. When our team raided the premises, its doctors fled. Only a class IV staff member was found.
We have served a notice to the clinic owner and asked for an explanation as the staff has failed to show any documents. More than six patients admitted in the nursing home were shifted to a nearby community health centre."
