EMN
Dimapur, November 24
Nagaland Medical Council (NMC) has observed that there is no proper evaluation of healthcare services being provided by various organisations which conduct medical camps for rural people and that it has become essential for the council to monitor and regulate the services to the people. “While the Nagaland Medical Council appreciate the willingness of many organisations are interested to conduct medical camps for the benefit of the rural people, we are pained to observe that there is no proper evaluation of the quality service.” A statement issued by NMC Kohima, pointed out that public had already been informed through media that the lists of all the health service providers in the camp should be submitted to NMC before conducting such camps. The WHO has standard lists of medicines to be prescribed in medical camps.
“Nagas are easily misled by receiving free medicines in such Camps. Public leaders are also happy to get left over medicines and keep with them. This encourages quackery. It is dangerous to dispense prescription medicines by untrained personnel. They can be persecuted under Drug and Cosmetic Act for anybody violating distributing prescription medicines without qualified doctor’s prescription.”
Stating that such abuses can have deleterious effect in the health of the people, the council said, “We can no longer continue such cheap publicity at the expense of the ignorant villagers. Every medicine has side effects if it can kill the disease germs, it can also do the same to the users.”
The NMC appealed to all organisations to co-operate in the interests of the health of the Naga people. The council also reminded that in surgical camps, it is also mandatory for the surgeon to stay at least two days after the operation he had performed to see and manage any post operative complications.
