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Delhi government urged to take action against college of electro-homeopathy

NEW DELHI: Delhi Medical Council, a statutory body engaged in the business of ensuring that quacks are kept at bay in the Capital, claim to have their back against the wall with this one.

According to a senior DMC official, almost 40 per cent of the quacks — unqualified persons practicing modern scientific system of medicine — are practicing medicine based on a BEHM registration certificate being issued by NEHM of India, an institute teaching electro-homeopathy, located at Janakpuri.

“Ostensibly the certificate itself authorises the holder to practice ‘electropathy’. However, in the garb of the so called certificate or qualification, the holders have been found to be indulging in practice of allopathic system of medicine, thereby endangering the lives of many innocent people,” states a letter signed by DMC secretary Girish Tyagi and addressed to the Principal Secretary (Health) of the Delhi Government.

In the letter, the DMC has also requested the Health Department to take strict and immediate action to ensure that quacks practicing with this degree are not allowed to treat patients. “Bewildered at a large number of persons practicing the modern system of medicine in the Capital with the degree they have procured from NEHM, we have requested the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Delhi Government, to ascertain under what legislation and authority the NEHM of India is awarding such certificates and whether ‘electropathy’ is recognised as a scientific system for treatment of human beings,” said Dr. Tygai.

In its letter, the DMC added: “It is observed that institutions like NEHM are perpetuating quackery which is a social menace. The Delhi Government is requested to weed out such institutions so that quackery can be struck at one of its root causes. Such concrete and effective measures will go a long way towards eradicating this menace from society.” Stating that his Department has a no-tolerance policy when it comes to quacks Delhi Health Minister Yoganand Shastri said: “We do conduct raids from time to time to ensure that quacks are weeded out of the system and we will definitely investigate the matter. Strict action will be taken against those found to be indulging in promoting quackery in the healthcare system.”

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