The Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation’s health department said the accused doctor practises electro-homeopathy and is not registered with the Maharashtra Medical Council
The Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation’s health department said the doctor, Dhupchand Nishad, 42, practises electro-homeopathy and is not registered with the Maharashtra Medical Council.
Officials said he was not authorised to prescribe allopathic medicines or administer injections. Dr Bhakti Chaudhary, head of the civic health department, said electro-homeopathy practitioners are not authorised to administer injections or prescribe allopathic medicines. “However, the doctor had administered injections to the girl,” she said.
Vasai: An eight-year-old girl died a day after she was allegedly given injections at a clinic in Vasai (E), prompting her parents to claim the treatment caused her death and police filed an FIR against the doctor.
Acting on a complaint by civic medical officer Dr Srinivas Dudhamal, Waliv police registered a case under Section 318 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for alleged cheating and under Sections 33 and 33(A) of the medical practitioners’ law for practising medicine without authorisation.
Police said the investigation will continue after reports arrive.