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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

IMA to serve notice on Chief Secretary

Staff Reporter

"Rs. 10 cr. public money being wasted on fish medicine arrangements"

HYDERABAD: The Indian Medical Association (IMA), Charminar branch, will serve notices on the Chief Secretary and other department officials for allegedly wasting public money for promoting fish medicine, which has no scientific basis.

The honorary secretary of IMA, C. L. Venkat Rao, said here on Thursday that they had already moved the High Court against the promotion of fish medicine.

The State Government had ignored the directive of the High Court and the Medical Council of India (MCI) to conduct an inquiry and submit a report within six months, he said. A contempt of court petition would also be filed shortly.

The IMA would serve fresh notices to the Chief Secretary, the MCH Commissioner, the Metro Water Works and Transco officials questioning wastage of public money for promoting an "unscientific medicine."

The IMA had filed a writ petition in the High Court last year challenging the efficacy of the fish medicine and objecting to the State Government spending about Rs. 10 crores of taxpayers' money to make `mela' like arrangements for those coming to the city to avail the medicine.

Dr. Venkat Rao said the fish medicine had no scientific basis and that a recent lab analysis of the fish medicine revealed the presence of heavy metals like mercury, cadmium, lead and steroids that were hazardous to health. Even the IICT, which analysed the fish medicine, said it did not find any component of medicinal value in the composition.

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