Pregnant woman dies after taking med from quack

Krishnagiri: A pregnant woman died after taking medicines prescribed by a quack for an illness near Hosur in Krishnagiri district on Thursday. Health department officials have sealed an acupuncture centre run by the quack.
R Korima, 27, of Thorapalli village near Hosur, was pregnant for the fourth time. She was a homemaker.
Her husband Riyaz, 29, took Korima to the acupuncture centre run by Murugesan in the same village for consultation as she was not well for the last few days.
“Murugesan prescribed some medicines for Korima at the acupuncture centre,” a police officer from the Hosur police station said. Korima died within a few minutes of taking the medicines at the acupuncture center on Thursday.
Murugesan closed the centre and escaped before police came in search of him.
Health department officials too reached the spot and broke the shutter of the centre in the presence of Hosur town police.
“Murugesan was running an acupuncture centre. But, he had prescribed allopathic medicines to his patients,” chief doctor of Hosur government hospital Dr Boopathi said.
Dr Boopathi lodged a complaint with the Hosur town police. The health department officials seized allopathic medicines from the centre.
“Police should take criminal action against Murugesan,” Dr Boopathi added.