Informers Shielding Quacks Will Face the Law, Health CEO Warns

Key Points:

Suspicious persons watch enforcement teams and government vehicles and tip off quacks before raids
Identification of the informers is under way and the information about them is being verified
Anyone obstructing legal proceedings, surveilling official teams or protecting quackery faces strict action
Under Operation Clean Up, several illegal clinics were sealed and challans sent to the Punjab Healthcare Commission and the Drug Court
The crackdown will intensify across the city, all tehsils, villages, remote areas and small towns

FAISALABAD: The District Health Authority has warned that anyone tipping off quacks about enforcement raids will face strict legal action. The warning covers those who watch official teams and shield illegal clinics across Faisalabad district.

Chief Executive Officer Dr Shehzad Mahmood said it had come to the authority’s notice that certain suspicious persons watched the movements of enforcement teams and government vehicles. He said the tip-offs helped the quacks escape before the teams arrived.

Dr Mahmood said the identification of such persons was under way and the information about them was being verified.

He gave a clear and final warning that anyone obstructing legal proceedings would face strict action under the relevant laws. The same action awaited anyone illegally surveilling official teams or protecting quackery.

Dr Mahmood ruled out any compromise on public health and human lives. He said the anti-quackery campaign would continue in all circumstances.

Under Operation Clean Up, health teams sealed several illegal clinics in a full-scale crackdown. The challans of the violators were sent to the Punjab Healthcare Commission and the Drug Court for further legal action.

The CEO said the operation would intensify in the coming days. Indiscriminate action would cover the city, all tehsils, villages, remote areas and small towns, with no area exempt.

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