Quacks and fake healers
Dr. M M Mortayez Amin, MBBS, MPhil, MMed (UK), Consultant, Labaid Fertility Centre, Labaid Specia
You must have noticed that every day there are advertisements in our daily newspapers of some spiritual and traditional medicines promising to cure some very complicated diseases, infertility, conjugal disputes, failure in business, failure in love etc. The titles of these ads, if you please notice, are very lucrative to the people in physical or mental distress. I seldom find any incisive report by our journalists who seem to be more interested in political developments for obvious reasons. But unscrupulous people who are making money at the cost of others should be brought to full public glare through reporting. I request the government agencies concerned to take stern action against the fake healers and save millions of innocent people from being cheated. The government as well as the journalists should chalk out programmes and publish in-depth reports to raise awareness among the general populace. I also question the legal and moral right of the newspapers and weeklies as they print the advertisements only for making money at the expense of general people.
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