RAVINDRA KUMAR GOEL Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS case reveals the wide spread malpractices which are going on in the State of U. P. regarding medical practice by unauthorized persons (quacks) who often have bogus degrees/certificates from bogus/fictitious so called medical colleges in various parts of the country.

(2.) THIS appeal has been filed against the order of the learned single Judge dated 28.1.2004. We have heard learned counsel for the parties and have perused the said order in great detail.

(3.) DURING the pendency of the contempt petition the Court also directed inspection of the Community Health Centre at Koraon and Shankergarh, district Allahabad to verify the complaints regarding unauthorized practitioners. In the report submitted by the Director, Medical Health, U. P., it was stated that the Community Health Centre are not providing adequate medical care which was almost absent in the rural areas. The Doctor are not attending their duties and the medical equipments are either not available or are non-functional. The para medical staff is wholly insensitive. Some doctors managing long tenures at their postings have entered into a close nexus with unauthorized practitioners. The Medical Council of India was also impleaded and it filed its affidavit. Relevant extract of the affidavit has been quoted by the learned single Judge in his order.