Two persons, including a woman, have been arrested for treating patients without formal medical qualifications and they were arrested during a raid conducted by health department officials near Palladam.
Tirupur: The District Health Department officials have received a tip-off about the presence of quacks practicing allopathy medicine near Palladam in Tirupur district.
Based on this, the officials conducted a surprise raid at a quack's clinic on Manickapuram Road near Palladam.
Health department officials confirmed that Krishna Anand Bishwas, son of Abhimanyu Biswas, a native of West Bengal, was running the clinic, had studied only up to plus two and was treating patients regularly.
He was arrested by the Palladam police, produced in court and remanded in custody.
Similarly, health department officials were also monitoring the information that a woman was treating patients in Lakshmi Mill area near Palladam.
Chinraj's wife Kokila, a resident of Lakshmi Mill, was running a dispensary. She was also said to be treating patients and practicing allopathy without any formal qualification.
During the interrogation, it was revealed that the woman had dropped out of Bsc nursing course and set up a clinic to treat unwitting patients.
Based on a complaint lodged by health department officials, the Palladam police arrested Kokila and produced her in court and remanded in custody.