Pakistan fights against unlicensed doctorsーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS
Pakistan has been facing a serious challenge to deal with unlicensed doctors. Authorities estimate more than 600,000 have been examining patients and prescribing medication. The underlying causes for why patients visit them include widespread poverty and harsh economic conditions. NK world say Mudabio Risby has a story. Pakistan’s largest city Karachi is said to have about 80,000 fake doctors. the highest number in the country. Patients complaining of pain and sexual dysfunction arrive one after another at this room in a mixed use building. The room was filled with various medicines. This 42year-old man says he has been performing medical procedures for 25 years. He claims he sees nearly 30 patients a day. My father ran the clinic before. I started running it after he died. Patients with sexual, orthopedic, and other diseases come daily. license completely certified license at home. The man admitted after more questioning that he had no qualifications, but he claimed that because he had many years of experience, he could perform medical procedures properly even without them. But some people have suffered serious health damage from being treated by people like him. A 50-year-old man living in Karachi went for a medical consultation 3 years ago due to an infectious disease and sexual dysfunction. After taking the prescribed medication for about a year, the color of his urine gradually became abnormal. Symptoms such as pain and inflammation also started appearing. A specialist told him his kidneys had been seriously affected. His monthly income is about $100. So he ended up seeing a fake doctor as it cost about onethird of what a real doctor would charge, including a prescription. Hundreds of thousands of people visit them because of inflation and poverty, and everyone thinks it’s cheap. Government officials should do something about these fake documents. S Province Health authorities have shut down over 11,000 clinics run by unlicensed doctors in over 7 years up to early November. But eliminating them is hard as new clinics quickly spring up. Unless we hit the root causes of the quakery, we will not be able to finish or eliminate quakery just by closing down the outlets. The health authorities say they aim to toughen measures against fake doctors. Ensuring that patients can access safe and proper medical care will require sustained long-term efforts from all parts of society. Parachi.
Pakistan authorities say the country has about 600,000 unlicensed doctors. Sindh province officials are fighting to shut them down as some patients treated by the quacks have suffered serious health damage.
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