Bangalore: Fake Ayurvedic, Unani, Naturopathy doctors beware !

From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore

Bangalore, Mar 9: Fake medical practitioners – especially those claiming to be Ayurvedic, Unani and Naturopathy doctors – beware !

The Karnataka Ayurvedic and Unani Practitioners’ Board has decided to launch a biometric online registration system for medical practitioners governed by the Board in order to curb the menace of fake medical practitioners.

Board President Satyamurthy Bhat said the new system requires the candidates to compulsorily provide all their biometric details at the time of registration.

Registered practitioners, who meet the required eligibility criteria, will be issued a smart card containing all their details.

This is the first attempt of its kind in the country among any medical board/ councils, Dr Bhat claimed.

The registration certificate, besides details containing practitioner’s details in print, will also comprise a 2D bar code

This enables any person to crosscheck the certificate through a mobile phone which has the 2D bar code reader, by comparing the data stored with the Board [www.kaupboard.karnataka.gov.in], explained Kirankumar Annigeri, Managing Director of V Works Software, which has developed this module.

This way, genuineness of registration certificate could be checked by anyone, said Dr. Bhat.

The Board will also take up digitisation of all existing records of all medical practitioners with biometric details in the next few months.

All the records since the establishment of the Board in 1965, were not in good condition and need to be digitised, he said.

The Board is in the process of rationalising the speeding up the registration process, he said candidates would be given online appointments for appearance after they furnish all the details and copies of certificates online.

Thus, huge rush of candidates to get registered soon after declaration of results could be avoided, he said.

Registered practitioners need not come to the Board for renewal once in five years. Instead, they could get the registration renewed given an account, Dr Bhat said.

As far as existing registered practitioners, numbering about 34,000 (Ayurveda, Unani, Sidda and Naturopathy), he said they District Ayurvedic Officers or during regular CME (continuing medical education) programmes.