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Protest against fake drugs racket, foeticide

Up in arms: Activists taking out a rally in protest against female foeticide and fake medicines in Berhampur on Thursday.

BERHAMPUR: A joint demonstration against sale of fake medicines and female foeticide was held in the city on Thursday by the Berhampur Workers and Employees’ Coordination Committee, the DYFI and the CPI(M).

Activists took out a rally and submitted a memorandum addressed to the Chief Minister to the Berhampur Sub-Collector, seeking a CBI inquiry into the rackets unearthed in the State.

Polit bureau member of the CPI(M) Ali Kishor Patnaik said the crime branch inquiry ordered by the government would not be able to bring in confidence in the minds of public as it was under the Chief Minister who even held the Home portfolio.

Ganjam district secretary of the CPI(M) Kalu Panda, leader of coordination committee Ram Chandra Nayak and local unit president of DYFI Basant Nanda participated. Meanwhile, a private nursing home allegedly being run illegally by a quack in the heart of the city was sealed by officials during their continuing raids on private nursing homes on Thursday.

A team led by Berhampur tehsildar Sangram Panda was raiding a nursing home on the Kamapalli-Goilundi Road when it came across the clandestine facility being run in the upper floor of the same building without a signboard. The doctor in question Trinath Kumar Swain, however, claimed that he was a physician with ample qualification and experience. His nameplate and writing pad had a mention of several degrees he reportedly had. But investigations proved that all these degrees were meant to mislead people. The officials seized surgical instruments as well as medicines from the premises of the clandestine nursing home, which indicated that patients were being treated there.

As Swain could not show any legal document to run the nursing home, the authorities sealed it. When Panda grilled Swain, he could not answer questions regarding legalities of MTP.

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