Quacks and unqualified medical practitioners are minting money by deteriorating the health of the people in the entire country freely but the matter of grave concern is that there is no one to check and balance on them.
These quacks are sitting in every nook and corner of the country but neither the federal or provincial governments are taking any action against them which is quite alarming. It is the responsibility of health ministries functioning in the federal and provincial government to prevent the illegal medical practices but the people at helm of affairs are becoming dumb and deaf on the matter.
The reasons behind letting quacks and fake medics free to exploit the health of the simpleton people could be either the political pressure or corrupt practices by some dishonest elements sitting in the health departments throughout the country.
A few days ago, a woman passed away due to liver cancer because she did not receive timely treatment from a qualified doctor. The disease worsened, and the pain only increased when her family members would sometimes discuss remedies with quacks or traditional healers.
It is an incident but there are thousands of such stories coming around us in our daily routine, where the people are dying due to these quacks, fake doctors and so called hakims.
These medical advisors are carrying out practice without obtaining any degree are astonishing. They may not even have basic knowledge of the illness, yet they treat the ills in such a manner that the family members of the patients become convinced of their expertise and sacrifice their life.
How these quacks become so unjust that they don’t even realize that it’s a matter of someone’s life, continuing their useless treatment until illness reaches a life-threatening stage.
In our society, the middle and lower middle class still consider that traditional medicine is a credible way to treat the patients, even these quacks put the life of the people at risk under the guise of traditional treatment. Compared to medical science, society prefers the methods of half-educated herbalists.
The quack practitioners often worsen people’s illnesses, and when the situation becomes critical, the kith and kin of the ailing person rush to a hospital emergency.
Similar situations are observed regarding male and female hidden diseases, where a large number of concoctions and potions are sold after creating this sense of inferiority that someone is suffering from male infertility. Similarly, we often hear that the treatment for kidney stones, bladder stones, and gallstones is performed through spells or by blowing air through water,
On several roadsides in the big cities of the country the dental treatment is carried out by using drill machines where innocent people are losing their teeth. In reality, when a patient goes to a traditional healer, the disease is still progressing towards its final stages.
Instead of putting our lives in grave danger, it is better to seek treatment from qualified and reputable doctors in a systematic and reliable manner, considering all aspects of our lives.