Government orders closure of illegal mental asylum in Madhepura

Madhepura, Jun 20 (UNI) Bihar government has ordered closure of a mental asylum in Madhepura which was allegedly being run by a quack for the past several years.

The mental hospital at Murkahi village under Shankarpur police station was being run by a quack- Mahadev Prasad Yadav, who recently won the Mukhiya election.

Yadav used to offer medical consultation to the intellectually challenged and admit some of them as per their requirements. People of the area and from distant places used to come to the asylum for seeking treatment. But the controversy gathered momentum after Mahadev Prasad Yadav decided to throw his hat in the fray for the Mukhiya during the just concluded Panchayat elections.

After the controversies, an FIR was filed in Shankarpur police station in this regard.

Interestingly, the 'doctor' who claims to have treated many lunatic patients by his so called 'divine power' and herbal medicines, had no formal degree of medicines.

The mental asylum has about 30-40 occupants and patients' level of comfort depends on their degree of madness. The critical ones are chained and made to sleep on floor under a tin roof, while others with lesser degree of affliction, are allowed to stay in thatched huts while the still better ones get cots to sleep. The two square meals, the patients get come in the form of community meals but even as they eat or attend the call of nature, they are in chains.

Meanwhile, the Indian Medical Association(IMA) has demanded arrest of the quack who has been running the mental hospital in an unlawful way for the last forty years.

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