If modern medicine is scientifically based and based on results confirmed in clinical practice, then traditional medicine is based on the results of many years of observation, testing and experience.
However, recently, fake healers have appeared who are engaged in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases using unauthorized methods, without having the appropriate rights, thereby endangering the health and lives of people.
There have been many posts on the social network Facebook about the visit of Mala Ali the Kurdistan to Uzbekistan. But even though some followers are trying to prove that he is a fraud, he claims that he treats people from Iraqi Kurdistan. Mala Ali even has many believers who claim to cure AIDS and cancer.
In fact, he "finds Pakistani patients somewhere and announces that he has cured them of incurable diseases. He claims that he opens the eyes of the blind and the ears of the deaf.
Having found evidence of his fraud, the Iraqi government decided to arrest him and prosecute him. Fearing arrest, the "doctor" moved to Saudi Arabia.
A video is also "circulating" on social networks in which a Pakistani man restores the sight of a "blind" person. It turns out that the "blind" is not really blind. As a result, the Saudi Arabian authorities opened a criminal case against the famous "healer" for fraud and deported him from Saudi Arabia.
Now he has come to Uzbekistan. Social media users were surprised how he cured a "lame" woman by reading a verse from the Koran.
Djamshid Mirrahimov, director of the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Traditional Medicine under the Ministry of Health, gave the following comments about some people who have gained people's trust in various ways and offer such "services":
"Social networks have become a platform for the widespread promotion of such dubious services," says the expert. - Their main audience and clients are mainly our citizens who have found themselves in a difficult life situation.
Those who want to get rid of various diseases quickly, easily, simply, and most importantly naturally and at home, are deceived by such people who claim to have "supernatural powers." For example, videos have recently spread on social networks promoting the benefits of eating earthworms in the treatment of certain diseases.
It depicts a "healer" who does not have a license to practice traditional medicine, who pretends to eat a live worm to convince people of his recommendations. First of all, such behavior is contrary to sanitary conditions. Moreover, this "treatment method" is not based on modern medicine. The creature in the video is called an earthworm or an earthworm. Getting into the body with various parasites and microelements in the soil, it can cause various dangerous diseases.
In recent years, the state has opened a wide path for the development of traditional medicine, but along with this, many false healers have appeared. Therefore, it is proposed to provide for special liability for fraud and deception in the legislation on this issue.
For reference: at the moment, 100 business entities in our country have been granted the appropriate licenses to engage in activities in the field of traditional medicine.
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