No loopholes allowing frauds to practise should exist. While fakes and impersonators are there in every field, here, there is a direct connection with the scamster and people’s lives. Administering injections and giving medicines when not qualified to do so is so dangerous and, in fact, deadly. That is why the action here and for all cases like these needs to be quick, sustained and designed to put the fear of God into anyone trying to pull off stunts like these.

It is also important that locals speak up if they sense something is wrong. They have a right to tip off authorities, with full assurance that they will be protected. Since there is a direct co-relation between health and con men peddling treatment and cures, the crackdown needs to be much stricter and every doctor without a degree or illegal medico must know there will be consequences.