Surveillance on illegal medical practices to get intensified in border villages of Chittoor district
The Hindu
Collector directs officials to intensify surveillance on scanning centres & illegal medical practices in border towns. Medical officers from TN & KA raise issue of innocent public approaching quacks. Collector seeks medical staff to inspect vulnerable areas & prevent misuse of drugs used in abortions. 49 scanning centres in Chittoor district, to be operated by radiologists & trained medical professionals only. DMHO to arrange meeting for registered medical practitioners to conduct awareness sessions on PC&PNDT Act.
Collector Sagili Shanmohan on Saturday directed the Medical and Health Department officials to intensify surveillance on the scanning centres and illegal medical practices in the towns and villages bordering Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
The Collector was addressing a meeting on the effective implementation of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994, (PC&PNDT Act) held here. Medical officers from Tiruvallur, Tirupattur, Vellore, and Krishnagiri from Tamil Nadu and Kolar in Karnataka attended the meeting.
The Collector said a special vigil was underway to prevent the unauthorised use of ultrasound scanning machines in the district.
The Medical Officers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka brought to the notice of the Collector that following the prohibition of medical practice by quacks in their States, some of them had shifted their operations to the Chittoor district.
They also raised the issue of the innocent public in the border villages and towns approaching the quacks and expressed concerns over the severe health complications and risks those people could expose themselves to.
The Collector sought the medical and paramedical staff to regularly inspect the areas vulnerable to illegal use of scanning machines and abortions of female fetuses.
Mr. Shanmohan also asked the officials to focus on preventing the misuse of the drugs used in abortions.
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