NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, July 8: The practice of quackery is thriving in the district without any check by the health authorities and the cause for it is said to be the apathetic attitude of MBBS doctors.

Several quacks - compounders and medical assistants - have opened clinics in different towns and villages of the district. Talking to this correspondent on Tuesday, residents of Naushahro Feroze, Tharoshah, Kandiaro, Mehrabpur, Padidan, Moro and Mithiani towns said that when they visit government hospitals and health centres no proper check-up was carried out by doctors.

They said that doctors in government hospital also prescribe costly medicines which they could not purchase from the market. "The patients are also advised by doctors to visit their private clinics", they said.

Due to this attitude patients are compelled to visit clinicsof quacks who charge less fees. A disable woman, Mai Muradan, said that she was a woman with insufficient means but whenever she visited the Naushahro Feroze government hospital she was not given medicines.

A widow, Sartaj Solangi, said that she visited quacks as no one was attending patients at the civil hospital. "I have a 12-year-old son who is ill for the last several days but she is getting no relief from the government hospital" she said. A private practitioners, Dr Qadeer Memon, said that officers working under the district government were not taking efforts to end quackery.